There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

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.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.