“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”

“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?”

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”

“Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.”

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”