...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.