“In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.”

“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.”

“The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and ...”

“But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it.Just because it wouldnt last forever out there didnt mean it hadntexisted. thats why I was there. I was there for a moment. Andbeca...”

“The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’twork out the first time.”

“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.”

“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...”