...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.