If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.