More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.

I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.

I wonder what my speech would be.

I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

Everyone is special in their own way.