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“The world doesn’t seem like such a bad place when I’m with you.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”

“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too.”

“I don’t want to get attached to anyone anymore, it only destroys me in the end.”

“It’s not weak to stand by the person you love when they’re trying to fix a big mistake, and it’s not weak to decide to put yourself first.”

“I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.”

“Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.”

“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can’t get back on the right one?”

“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.”

“Find a heart that will love you at your worst and arms that will hold you at your weakest.”

“Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.”

“If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there’s no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”

“A little rain is nothing compared to the storm I grew up in.”

“Sometimes it’s good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose…”

“I once told her I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”

“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”