How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.