"He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father."
"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"
"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."
"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."
"There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself."
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."