"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."
"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."
"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"
"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"
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires"
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."