Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.