Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

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

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.