Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.