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

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

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

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.