Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

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

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

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