People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

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

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.