It's never long distance between friends.

I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.

It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

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.