Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.