"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires"

"Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far."

"And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt."

"Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence."

"Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey."

"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."

"You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals."

"Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it"

"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."

"She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck."

"The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come."

"Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner."

"The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do."

"if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?."

"You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?"

"This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder"

"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."