When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.