I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora

I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.