Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

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

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.