It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.