“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”

“How can something so wrong feel so right?”

“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”

“I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying...”

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”

“...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed....”

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”

“He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.”

“Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.”

“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...”