BLUE & ETC

"Love is not found, love finds."

"Love finds you in the forgiveness at the tail end of a fight. Love finds you in the empathy you feel for someone else. Love finds you in the embrace that follows a tragedy. Love finds you in the celebration after the conquering of an illness. Love finds you in the devastation after the surrender to an illness."

"I don’t feel lost in him at all, because it’s the first time I’ve ever felt like someone truly found me."

"Sometimes people want what they can't have and confuse that with feelings for another person."

"You drink to escape the emotional pain you’re in, and then the next day you do it all over again to get rid of the physical pain. So you drink more and your drink more often and pretty soon you’re drunk all the time and it becomes just as bad, if not worse, than the reality you were attempting to escape from in the first place. Only now, you need an escape from the escape, so you find something even stronger than the alcohol. And maybe that’s what turns alcoholics into addicts."

"Every day of my life it feels as if I'm fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere."

"It’s impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. "

"Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end."

"Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel."

"I’ll love you forever. Even when I can't."

"It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people."

"I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again."

"We all have deal-breakers, Daniel. Some of us just hope we can keep them hidden forever."

"I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once."

"You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn't enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can't change that."

"I'm gonna go live my life now, Les. A life I'm actually able to look forward to, and I'd honestly thought I'd never be able to say that. Then again, I'd honestly thought I'd always be hopeless, but I find hope every single day."

"But I’ve learned over the past year what it really means to be able to miss someone. In order to miss someone, that means you were privileged enough to have them in your life to begin with."