They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?