“That’s the nature of life. You can only go down one path and you don’t get to know ahead of time what’s down the other. Pick and go. Sometimes it turns out better than you expected. Sometimes worse. No point dwelling on the path you didn’t take. And no matter what happens, some good will pop out of it somewhere. Just because it came from something awful doesn’t mean it’s poisoned, somehow. You gotta hang on to it anyway, be grateful for it.”