It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.