“Good ideas rarely seem like good ideas at their inception, that's what stops the majority of people from having them”

“If good stuff happened to us until we died it wouldn't be called Life. It would be called Great.”

“You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so goddamn much.”

“Okay," I confessed. "You got me. I don't want to die. I'm terrified of death. I fear there's nothing beyond it and that this existence is the only one I'll ever possess. That's why I'm here."He patted my leg to give me reassurance. "That's why they're all here. Even the ones that believe in heaven and seventy-two virgins and every other good thing supposedly waiting for them in the afterlife.”

“The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?”

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”

“You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.”