And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.