You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.