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It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right ... We can make it the whole way, Crick.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.

Rejection, though
it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

Usually you just walk and walk among people who are not of your tribe, and then suddenly, there you are, in a place that feels familiar and known.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

A person is never as quiet as they seem, we are thickly layered page lying upon page behind simple covers.

I vow ... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Always. Stay always.
Always.

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

..They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

It makes me nervous, the way the biggest things and the smallest live together day in and day out.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days ... No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

the mind is a tyrant

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

I don't stop to imagine home and the people in it, because this is so far from home, I am another person entirely.

Us frogs understand this.

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

All those maybes are just hope looking for a place to land.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.

Real tough guys don't swear, they just do.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.

We try to hold a storm in our own fist but we are not that strong.

You take care of the people you love, but it's true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.'
So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

I mean it's purposeful, even if we don't realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind ... .

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

Just because it turned out bad, doesn't mean it wasn't meant.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

The night smelled like blackberry leaves and the ocean's nearness, something sweet and deep and full.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love
it's less shiny than solid and simple.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

Fury and devastation are fraternal twins.

Holy Christ fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor " he chuckled.

[A]pparently, it's okay to WORK as a waitress but not to BE a waitress.

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

I understand he's not guilty of anything except maybe loving too much. This boy, he is just ... mine.

Right comes with right timing.

The people who ask for advice are the ones who already know what they should do.

But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

You gotta love an old-fashioned word like "quarrelsome." Today she'd just be a bitch.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Dread begins to inch in. No. Dread isn't one of those subtle emotions. It moves in and takes over, and then it drips and hands, like Spanish moss.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

Beaches, music, and car rides - they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I had to move a mountain or something.

I don't want her in my car." says Jenna.
I don't want her in my life." says Michael.
I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello.

Against the sky, she is exquisitely elsewhere.

One thing you can say about daughters and mothers - like it or not, they know the truth about each other.

I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.

It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word ...

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

True love, even if just in your head, can make you forget how badly things actually suck.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Does the river make the choice to erode the rock?

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.