Nineteen Minutes

“I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't.” “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.”

Like always, he made her head swim with seasons-his hair was all the colors of autumn; his eyes the bright blue of a winter sky; his smile as wide as any summer sun.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

When you're hurting deeply, you go inward. Endorphins kick in-the bodys natural morphine-and carry you somewhere far away, where the pain can't find you.

I think everything you need to know about the law you learn in kindergarten. You know: Dont hit. Don’t take whats not yours. Don't kill people. Don't rape them.

Ms Cormier, who has the right to judge someone else? “Well,” she said. “That depends on whether you're judging in a moral sense or a legal sense. Morally, no one has the right to judge anyone else. But legally, its not a right-its a responsibility.”

I you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask...with nothing beneath it?

You couldn't argue the facts, you could only change the lens through which you looked at them.