“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

“But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn't touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe she's just overreacting. Instead, you just smile and sit with her and say, "I understand" when really, you don't understand her at all.”

“They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.”

“There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.”

“Some things you can fix, and some things you can’t. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.”

“The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.”

“But I do remember this thing that this famous rabbi wrote once about how Christians build cathedrals, these gorgeous impressive structures, but Jews, with a long history of watching their buildings get destroyed, build their cathedrals in time. The High Holidays. Shabbat. Cathedrals carved out of time that can never be worn down. I know you're no Jew but I kind of think that's what you did with your summer down here.”