Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

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

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

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

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother