What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.