“Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.”

“I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.”

“Some people want it all and expect it all; always looking outward, so often proclaiming what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them. Do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have?”

“It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.”

“Love doesn't keep score," he challenged.I shrugged my shoulders. "But people do...”

“She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart.”

“Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.”