He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.