"You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you."

"You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It’s society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that."

"Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do."

"You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again."

"I used to think I was tough, but then I realized I wasn’t. I was fragile and I wore thick fucking armor. And I hurt people so they wouldn’t hurt me. And I thought that’s what being tough was but it isn’t."

"Some people
Never find the right kind of love.
You know, the kind that steals
your breath away, like diving into snowmelt.
The kind that jolts your heart,
sets it beating apace, an anxious
hiccuping of hummingbird wings.
The kind that makes every terrible
minute apart feel like hours. Days.
Some people flit from one possibility
to the next, never experiencing the incredible
connection of two people, rocked by destiny.
Never knowing what it means to love
someone else more than themselves.
More than life itself, or the promise
of something better, beyond this world.
More, even (forgive me!) than God.
Lucky me. I found the right kind
of love. With the wrong person."

"When you love someone, you don’t want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don’t deserve to be hurt."

"You’re like the ocean… Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you’ll find beauty most people never see."

"She said one thing, I said another, next thing I knew, I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation."

"Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."