My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

What I know about you, Henry, ” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

Wait, ” Quinn said. “There’s one more thing.” I turned around and raised an eyebrow. His eyes were wary and he lacked his usual confidence.“Go to the Winter Dance with me.

But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. “Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry’s heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it vibrated with Henry’s worries and fears and I felt them all.Deeply. I felt them all.

One of the greatest keys to happiness is learning how to accept reality while stretching forth to create a new one.

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Seeing does not always believe.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.