I had to have a complete liver transplant.

Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you’re drowning, you grab any hand that’s offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision to save...

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

I look back to where my life had been. It’s always risky to think of letting go. That’s why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

Going to college don’t make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.