“I can do pain. Thats the easy part of life. Its everything else, happiness, laughter, love, thats fucking complicated.”

“Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically...”

“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”

“I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.”

“There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.”

“You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broke...”

“It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.”

“I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.”

“No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.”

“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...”