“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“How can something so wrong feel so right?”

“I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying...”

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”

“...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.”

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

“...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in yo...”

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”

“He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.”

“Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.”

“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.”