His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)