“I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.”

“I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.”

“Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.”

“Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery”

“For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakes...”

“If you can't win by reason, go for volume.”

“She meant that they'd never used words like "separation" and "divorce" even in their worst screaming matches. They yelled things like, "You're infuriating!" "You don't think!" "You are the most ann...”

“Ive been fighting to be who I am all my life. Whats the point of being who I am, if I cant have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.”

“And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit”

“Your most important fights will be the ones you knew that you couldn't win but you fought as hard as you could.”

“Okay,' she said. And that was that. The shortest fight we'd ever had.”