"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."
"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."
"well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."
"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"
"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?"