“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”

“I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for....”

“Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”

“A small part of me was glad. There's always relief in giving up.”

“i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.”

“If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.”

“Here are the top three things I’ve learned in my twenty-two years on the planet:1. Never wipe your butt with poison ivy.2. People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.3. There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.Of all of them, number three is really the only one you have to keep in mind”