I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

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