Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.