“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”

“True fear has nothing to do with what might happen to you, however painful or vile that might be. True fear is all about what might happen to someone you love.”

“The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.”

“You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.”

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

“I think that the only real way to tell if a boy like likes you is to be direct. None of this game-playing, that's juvenile. Instead, even though it might be scary, the thing to do is to just march up and ask one of your friends to ask someone else to ask one of his friends what he thinks about you.”