“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

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

“For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to wake up and see that this whole time you've been gone, you've only been headed back to where you started. And I'll be there, waiting." He leans forward and kisses me once, feather-light, on the lips. "It's not like I'm not letting you go," he murmurs. "I'm just trusting you enough to come back.”

“There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.”

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”