In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.