Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask