We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s more than that. This great and bursting thing inside me is love.

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

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

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

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

Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.