Ava’s entire life could be boiled down to this: great on paper, rotten everywhere else.

Equality is about having choices, even if my choice isn’t the one she would have made.

I’m merely suggesting that all of us fixate on certain kinds of cheating, while willfully ignoring other kinds.

I was so used to moving on autopilot toward some externally defined goal that I never stopped to consider where I wanted to go in the first place.

to share one’s secrets is to force others to bear your burden; to stay silent is to spare them.

me with tenderness, pure and honey-sweet.