The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.