Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.