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

I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.