On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

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.