“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”

“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”

“Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.”

“But it didn’t break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it.”

“I have been told, sometimes, the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over: Other people feel this too.”

“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.’”

“I like the scars because I like the stories. Bravery, stupidity, pain—none of them come free.”

“Waking up is the riskiest moment of the day.”

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”