If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

Make your choice and accept the consequences.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.