Dear Sweet Pea

That’s because your parents can’t help you breathe if they can’t breathe for themselves. You understand?

Sometimes it's important to do things for the people you love even when those things don't make a lick of sense to you.

...we don't like each other much, but we are cursed to love each other.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that quiet moments mean just as much as the loud ones, because it's not always about moving. Sometimes it's about sitting perfectly and quietly still.

none of us should waste any time waiting for happiness

Just the thought of Dad crying made me cry too

...maybe part of growing up means letting people and places change so you can find new ways to love them.

...there's more to marriage than being a parent, and there is oh so much more to being a parent than being married.

...sometimes the moments that shape us are a result of a little bit of mischief.

Hey!” I tell him. “Desperate times called for desperate measures

I can’t imagine any version of Oscar I wouldn’t want in my life.

Starting at a new school kind of stinks. Even if everyone is pretty cool. But it’s not the same. At my old school me and my friends started a club called Paranormal Appreciation Society. How could I ever find anything that cool again?

It’s like there’s a bright neon sign above my head with an arrow pointing right on me. Worst Daughter of the Year

I wish I could tell you that everything will be fine, but loving people is risky business. Things don’t always pan out how we think they should. But I gotta think that when the risk is worth it, it’s super worth it

Did you just take the newspaper into the bathroom?” she asks through the door. I sit down on the edge of the tub. “Maybe?” “You’re too young to be a middle-aged man

You’re too young to be a middle-aged man

how do you just turn it off? How do you just stop loving someone

For a moment, there’s nothing but silence. And it’s hard for me not to imagine Mom reaching over and taking Dad’s hand. I know everything has changed for them, but how do you just turn it off? How do you just stop loving someone? Mom and Dad weren’t just Mom and Dad. They were best friends too

Sorry, dude.” “I’m not your dude!” shouts Ricky. “Whatever, dude,” Greg shouts back

t’s not very easy to say no to fire-breathing mom dragons.

If that sounds confusing to you, join the club

...good things are worth fighting for, but sometimes it's hard to remember why something was good to begin with.