You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing. - Jodi Picoult

The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.