Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.