The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.