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

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life