The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.