It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.