I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.