Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.