Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.