if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will. - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

"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"

"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."

"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."