Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.