After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.