I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.