The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

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

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

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.

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.