The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.