All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

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.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.