While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.

They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.