I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls over on her back so she's staring up as well. 'Bet this view hasn't changed much, has it?' What she says is so simple i almost laugh. She's right, of course. 'No. This looks exactly the same.' I suppose that's the secret, If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.