There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Everyone still deserves to have their say.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?