"It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot."
"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose."
"It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are."
"Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying."Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?"
"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose."
"Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"