Every Day (Every Day, #1)

by David Levithan

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

You learn that if a parent reads to you at the end of the day, it’s a good sign that it’s a good parent, because you’ve seen so many other parents who don’t make the time.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn’t entirely grounded in your own mind;