“Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.”

“What you don’t think about when you’re planning for children is when you’re going to teach them how not to be killed”

“We look at the coming of a new beginning like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting. Hopeful.”

“And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.”