Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.