“I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.”

“It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.”

“Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.”

“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”

“Just so you know," I begin, "when they say 'Once upon a time'... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”

“...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”