“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock...”

“It takes a certain kind of naivet, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.”

“Accidents. It's all about the accidents.”

“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”

“I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.”

“...he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.”

“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”

“Can I try something?" I said. "If you dont' like it, I'll stop.”

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”

“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...”

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

“We only have one life (unless youre a cat or a Buddhist) and its often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to t...”

“The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.”