I spy with my little eye a great story.

the point is that there are always answers.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.