You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.