“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.”

“Your destiny is not tied to the people who walked away.”

“Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something’s gotta go and happen.”

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”

“No one can be everything you want them to be.”

“She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.”

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you’ll never take your eyes off her again?”

“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

“I was trying to replace something I’d come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.”