You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.