I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.