Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

I love you, I'll never stop.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.