When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real