“If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up”

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

“i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.”

“The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”

“it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.”

“What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.”

“You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them".”