“If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again.”

“I never want to be suspended in the limbo of non-decision again. It's like torturing yourself on purpose.”

“I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.”

“Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.”

“You're the one who made it seem like we were doing something wrong. Maybe you still feel like that, because for whatever reason, you think I'm not good enough for you. But I like you, okay? I've liked you from the very beginning.""It was never going anywhere""Because you wouldn't let it go anywhere.”

“Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.”

“From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't really black, which is the way I've always thought of it. It's actually a dark shade of blue, the darkest possible.”