I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.