That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

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.

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.