Elizabeth Brundage said this quote

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.

~ Elizabeth Brundage

Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore.

~ Elizabeth Brundage

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.

~ Elizabeth Brundage

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

~ Elizabeth Brundage