Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

You never fall in love with anyone the same way you fell in love with someone else. It's always different, every time, if you're lucky-or cursed-enough to have it happen more than once. But I've never been uncertain about love, not any of the times I found myself in it. Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.