"I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same."
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."
"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable"
"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."