“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.”

“Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much ...”

“Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.”

“Anna," he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.”

“It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.”

“Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.”

“Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others.”

“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”

“I follow the path weve taken so many times this summer across the front, down the street, cut back through a neighbors yard, down the stairs to the beach, past the pier, through the campfire labyr...”

“So just over a year ago, there was this guy. I really liked him. I mean really since I was a kid. Did Frankie know him? The three of us were best friends. We basically grew up together. Complicate...”

“And in this moment of pale dawn in the hours before we leave California, I finally realize what has been the hardest thing for me about Matts death. It isnt that I lost a brother, like Frankie, or ...”

“Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”

“Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.”

“Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.”