I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.