Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.