The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.

I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

In a well-ordered universe...

In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.

As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.