Lie to yourself until it's true.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

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

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.