A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.