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 wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.