“I closed my eyes against the suddensorrow that someone I knew so well should be someone who consistently brought me so much grief.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

“It's also at that moment that I realize I am able to maintain the level of judgmentalness that I so cherish only because I have someone in my life who knows me so well and still manages to love me. Isn't that what love is? Knowing someone's life story and not using it against them? OK, maybe it's more like knowing someone's life story, using it against them, and still loving them.”

“You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.”

“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”

“I couldn't hear his voice over the hammer of my heart. And I told myself over and over I should have known that someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply.”