Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.