"People think that if you love somebody hard enough then everything is just gonna work out. People are wrong." - One Tree Hill

"My cold, hard heart exposed, finally, for what it truly was. Fair warning, I thought. I should have told you from the start. I will let you down."

"She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know."

"You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path, you've got your eye on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake?"

"I have a disease, but my disease does not have me."

"The world is rarely the way it's supposed to be. And given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job ourselves."