Happiness is what you choose to remember.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.