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.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

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

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

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

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.