I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas