If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.