Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.