You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.