Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

The fall takes no time and forever.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Humans are pretty complicated, ” I said. “No, Boy. Rain-forest ecosystems are complicated. Humans are just a mess.

Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.”Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.