but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

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

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.