How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.

Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?