Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?