What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)