“You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.”

“It's so easy to for tragedy to defeat you. It's seductive in the way that I heard freezing to death is. Being consumed by grief is in many ways much more comfortable than battling your way out of it - especially when you realize that no matter how hard you fight you can't reverse the situation you're grieving over. But it's so important to engage in the battle anyway. It's really the only way to stay alive.”

“Since then, I've had these little periods when everything seems okay. I had another one last night, which I guess is why I'm writing you about this now. It's not that I don't understand that life has to continue, and it's not that I thought that there would never be a point when I could laugh easily or simply have a good time again. But these feelings don't last and they still seem unnatural to me. Not when I have them - at that point, they seem amazingly natural - but afterward. If you and I were going through this together, I'm sure we would talk about that a lot. I'd like to believe we would help each other out, that we would get through this together.”

“Maybe the heart is like an expandable file, filling to accommodate everything you need to carry with you.”

“She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.”

“It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.”

“We are forever, right?" Melissa Said. "Absolutely forever. There is nothing that could ever take me away from you," I said with more certainty than I'd said anything in my life.”