I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

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.

We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.