“Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.”

“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

“I wrote: 'Do you really not believe in love?'I really wished I never would have asked.'No', she had written back. 'I believe people become infatuated; maybe they even really like each other. But I don't believe in love. Those kinds of feelings just don't last. You feel them for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually the feeling goes away.”

“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.”

“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”

“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel. ”