“How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?”

“It’s not that most girls are delusional, per se. It’s just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different. And if there’s one thing I’m really against, it is turning a blind eye to reality. What’s the point? Things are the way they are, and the best thing for us to do is to just acknowledge that. No one ever died from having too much information. It’s the misunderstandings that are the problem.”

“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”

“This is life. We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of really great stuff too.”

“And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak?”

“That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.”

“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I like it because it’s the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They’re anyone’s guess.”