“We have to do it for my mum’s sake. Because I’m hoping that the last sorry will be to her.”

“My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!”

“My mother always wanted to live near the water,” she said. “She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”