Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

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.

I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?