nothing is guaranteed.... So don't be afraid. Be alive.

'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.