“Every time he left, I shattered apart.”

“I think you forget that I'm still alive. It's like you don't expect me to keep on existing now that I'm not in your life every day.”

“I'm not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... then there's...”

“I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.”

“Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.”

“A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.”

“I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared for you.”

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

“You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're goin...”

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”

“I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you.""I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fing...”

“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”

“The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.”