She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.