Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.
Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.