He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.