I'm sorry.' Congratulations.' Can you tell me why you're so upset?' The thing is, Tobey should get this. I mean, he's gotten everything else about me. And I don't want to explain it all. So much of it has to do with jealousy, and I know it's stupid to be mad at him because he had a life before me. But I am anyway.

It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.

You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.

Love is never guaranteed. Love is a risk we take because we hope it will make us happy.

That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.

And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.