“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

“What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?”

“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“Youre just another story I cant tell anymore.”

“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”

“I couldve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didnt miss you.”

“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.”

“I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.”