No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.