“People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.”

“She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once—because you could love them in different ways.”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”

“People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes.”

“But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of those who loved him find out about each other, they would not be able to help but feel of lesser value. He knew that I love you also means, I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will live you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you,and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. He knew that it is, by love's definition, impossible to love two people.”

“I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew”