After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

Give me excitement, give me love, give me uncertainty, give me the life unknown.

Never let doubt overcome your will to succeed

It's only as bad as you make it.

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.