“You can miss a person you've never known.”

“If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.”

“by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.”

“It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.”

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”

“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”