In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

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

I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

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

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?

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

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.