I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

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

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.