Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."