I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

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