"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks,"she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck,"she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."
"I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last."
"I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me."
"I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose."
"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."