The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

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

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

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.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

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.