“I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe.”

“I don't fail. I succeed at finding what doesn't work.”

“I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.”

“I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy.”

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.”

“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”

“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity”

“I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.”

“I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”