A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

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.

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.

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.