I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

Not all prisons have bars

Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me

It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its jagged light stretching from the sky to the ground, '-it's still beautiful. Sometimes you find something that makes this all worth it. And when you do, you hang onto it for as long as you can.' He turned to me, shrugging one shoulder. 'That's the best you can do.

Don’t be a hero,” I told him sternly. “Protect yourself.