No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?