“Beginnings are easy, but after that, happiness takes some work.”

“And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.”

“Somewhere in between, I had fallen for that boy.”

“At least, when theres fear, theres some human part left in you. Once thats gone, though, there is nothing.”

“I forced my eyes open and saw the image thats haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.”

“There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.”

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”

“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”

“Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”