Take me as I am.

The thing I keep thinking is, what is the price of love? And how much is too much? At what point do you look at the choices you're making and decide the price is too high? How much should we sacrifice for someone we care about?

“There are all kinds of things in the world I don’t understand, but I really wanted to understand you.”

“What happens when people open their hearts? ‘They get better.’”

“Laugh all you want, but I think learning to love yourself in a country where you’re told that you’re a plague on the economy, that you’re nothing but a prisoner in the making, that your life can be taken away from you at any moment and there’s nothing you can do about it — learning to love yourself in the middle of all that? Hell, that’s a goddamn miracle.”

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

“Most marriages worked in the same way that stories are said to do, through the suspension of disbelief. It wasn’t, in other words, perfection that sustained them so much as the avoidance of certain realities.”