Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.