The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.