"I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?"

"Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them."

"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."

"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."

"to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again."

"This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today."

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

"People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them."

"It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past."

"Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will."

"Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves."

"But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am."

"You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that."

"We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light."

"The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses."

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

"It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle."

"She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be."

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."