Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.