“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”

“You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.”

“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way…”

“And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? May be, Caleb thinks with a small shock, he isn't the same person he once was, either.”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.”