“Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore.”

“Hope or perhaps delusion was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.”

“I don't know what we're doing here you and me I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about a chance. Taking a chance.”

“She had forced herself to learn to read picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from televis...”

“Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.”

“She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from televi...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”