When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.