Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

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.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.