Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?