"The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant."

“I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.”

“Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.”

“They say love is blind, which makes me braille.”

“I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.”

“With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.”

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”

“People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.”

“Melanie still grieves for Jared," she stated. I felt my head nod without willing the action. "You grieve for him." I closed my eyes. "The dreams continue?" "Every night," I mumbled. "Tell me about then." Her voice was soft, persuasive. "I don't like to talk about them." "I know. Try. It might help." "How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and cry when he's not there? That the memories are so strong I can't separate hers from mine anymore?”