“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”

“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

“The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.”

“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”