You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

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

She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.