Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.