“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”

“..."I love you" was just three meaningless words without the actions that went with them”

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”

“It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and...and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave?You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability.”

“God, that’s always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.”