I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.

-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.