If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.