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

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.