You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl.