Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?