The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everyting in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.