“I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess w...”

“She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.”

“I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.”

“She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.”

“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could...”

“Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”