"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."
"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it"
"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
"I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go."
"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."