“Up or down.We're you in an up or down?”

“My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”

“If I'd managed any of these ifs-- would I have been able to avoid the inevitable fuck-up, the full-force fuck-off? My pride shut me up, my heart shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”

“It’s up to you, not fate.True. But it was also up to Lily.That was the trickiest part.”

“Whats up?" he asked.Up, I thought."This," I said, looking down at the photo in my hand.Down, I thought.”

“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”

“The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.”