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

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.