When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday’s eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you’ll come back; I trust only that you leave.

That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.