You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.