“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”

“It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.”

“It’s just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”

“Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”

“In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.”

“If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.”

“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.”