“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

“Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?”

“I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you.”

“I'd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you'd pick them?”