"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"
"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"Dylan Jerome,"the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him."
"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?"