"For what it's worth: It's never too late to be who you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you find the strength to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Perhaps we only leave
So we may once again arrive,
To get a bird's eye view
Of what it means to be alive.
For there is beauty in returning,
Oh how wonderful, how strange,
To see that everything is different
But know it's only you that's changed."

-E.H.

"If you start living for the smallest reasons, that's when you know you're really living. The smell of rain after a thunderstorm, the shades of pavement when it's autumn, the harvest season and the unspoken competition to pick the freshest tomatoes, the mediocre midnights and the color of sunsets, the smell of bakeshops early in the morning, the frosty breeze of fast-approaching winter, the warmth of the oven when baking Christmas cookies, the thickness of paper when flipping through magazine pages, the smell of new books, new clothes, and new things. When you start looking at things, really really looking you'll start living. Because then you''ll understand how it is to be really human in this world full of people

- and that is what we consider magic."