Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.