“Sometimes you need to know your place in someone’s life because you might get hurt if you expect too much.”

“If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.”

“stop being a doormat for other people’s filthy boots. you do not exist to be trampled upon.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

“I guess I’m trying to say, grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

“But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we’re not sure we’re going to like the answers.”

“I am too full of life to be half-loved.”

“I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”