Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

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's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.