Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.