You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.