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

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.