When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.

Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Your ability to make things happen is what makes you different

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.