“Hurt shouldn’t pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn’t exist anymore.”

“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.”

“Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least Ill feel something for a change.”

“Pain becomes proud because it believes no one else understands.”

“How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.”