Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.