I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.