“Tears sting my eyes once more, building up and rolling over my cheeks with the heat of a dying star. Isnt that what death is? Its forgetting. Its letting go. We make peace with the dead to say good...”

“I dont have to let anyone use me. I dont have to bend the truth. Even if Im not ready to forgive just yet, I dont have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear...”

“Nerve endings. Thats what it all comes down to. Billions of rooted synapses, like trees entwined in erratic soil. Lightning strikes every millionth of a second, the charges scattering across the ga...”

“But when youre a kid, it isnt chaos. Its just a heartbeat. Your house isnt floating through space, it sits on the ground. Once you get old enough you start to see that color is just paint and doors...”

“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but youre no longer a part of it.”

“How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters.”

“Theres only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.”

“Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.”

“There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”