"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."
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
"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"
"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
"well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."