there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.