sam

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”

““Jersey just got colder and I’ll have you know I’m scared to death that everything that you had said to me was just a lie until you left. Now I’m hoping just a little bit stronger, hold me up just a little bit longer. I’ll be fine, I swear. I’m just gone beyond repair.””