He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?