“Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didnt want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It...”

“I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.”

“Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.”

“Take this wine glass for example. If I had poured milk into it and told you it was wine, would you be upset when you took the first sip, expecting the bite of fermented grapes and getting milk inst...”

“I am. Im rude because I dont conform to societys standards that white lies are inconsequential. I dont believe in hiding behind words that arent truthful. Im an impatient man. I dont beat around th...”

“I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to...”

“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)”

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”

“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”

“If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.”

“Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.”