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.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

No, no, no to Tallyho.

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

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.