That lasting things do, in fact, last.

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.