and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

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.