We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.