This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.

It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.