When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.