Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.