It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.