“Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love you hurt you. Don’t confuse the two.”

“Are you ever so sad that you can actually feel your heart ache.”

“A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they’re entitled to know everything I do.”

“How a person reacts to your sadness says a lot about how long they’re going to be in your life.”

“Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone.”

“You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

“Hang on. It gets easier and then it gets okay and then it feels like freedom.”

“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”