“There are always choices. Sometimes, we just refuse to see them because we fear them—or because they’re masquerading as something else.”

“But life ebbed and flowed. The universe took things away and gave things back”

“When faced with an irresistible force, an immovable object moves.”

“That’s what relationships are supposed to be all about—sharing the hard parts along with the easy parts and getting to the same destination together.”

“Again and again, against all their best efforts to muck things up, the universe found ways to make things right. Heal wounds. Replace darkness with light. And, somehow, these things happened quietly, seamlessly, and without notice.”

“The truth doesn’t make you vulnerable—concealing it does.”

“Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.”