“if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.”

“When it rains," her father said "it pours.”

“To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.”

“What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.”

“Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.”

“A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

“My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”