“I suppose no one is truly dead when we go on loving them.”

“We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair -- when our words are empty.”

“That's why I'm compelled to tell this story - don't we all have one secret that has shaped us we are burning to reveal? - to convince myself that I'm entitled to my own life.”

“If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it before, that I'd say it was completely irrational, made up of so many opposites, the kind that couldn't exist without the other: bliss and sadness, courage and fear, adoration and disgust.”

“There are certain things in life for which we can never be prepared.”

“Maybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.”

“We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.”