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

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.