It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.