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

Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.

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

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.