There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.” “You are to me,” I say.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

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