Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.