I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.