When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you