people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

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?

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.