Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.