I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

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.

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.