“Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. You’re on your own. Be on your own.”

“It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.”

“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time.”

“Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you are sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.”

I think that's the cruelest part. Not that you're gone. But that my life never stopped including you. You're still the first person I look for in every story. The first laugh I want to hear. The first voice I imagine when the room gets to quiet. You have no idea how often you still exist in my days. Even though you haven't been part of them for a long time.

“Here was just a moment when things weren’t quite the same, weren’t quite as they had always been through the long friendship.”

“I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.”

“When you’re depressed, you grasp on to anything that can get you through the day. That’s what depression is, not sadness or tears. It’s the overwhelming sense of numbness and the desire for anything that can help you make it from one day to the next.”