“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”

“It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away?”

“You’re responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it’s up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you — for any of you.”

“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“there’s not another name, or another person. not another heart, or another laugh. another smile, or another’s tears. another’s hand, another’s eyes, another’s soul. there’s not another.”

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”