Book: Just completely crushed

If you are lucky, it will soon all turn into a scar rather than an open wound.

Life is too short to play coward with a loved one who is so important to you.

I won this round. My evil side was polishing the trophy with a smug grin. Then why was the rest of me so devastated?

Ignorance was much worse than the thought of just diving into it and facing the consequences.

It's funny how a person can spend weeks, months, or sometimes even years preparing for a nightmare that is more "when" than "if." And then, when you just convinced yourself that you have accepted the end of the world and come to terms with the consequences, it really comes, and suddenly, and you are not at all resigned. You fall, sit where you stood, overwhelmed by a loss for which you were never prepared.

I decided to smile, but my facial muscles immediately resisted. Who knew that a broken heart worked better than Botox?

Anyone can play a note. And talent is what you do with the sheet music.

Indifference is incompatible with hatred. And love is compatible.

I just want to say that I've watched enough horror films to treat kids with a healthy distrust.

Long pause. Bad sign. One day I will write a scientific paper on the history of long pauses and hurt feelings that followed them two hundred percent of the time. It was just like that time in tenth grade when I shaved my head on one side and asked Ryan what I looked like when I came to school the next day.

With every step we took, that thread inside me seemed to unwind more and more. As if my soul was opening up.

... that everyone cares about what people think of him ... to one degree or another. Even if they don't admit it.

Or maybe “living happily ever after” is not ideal at all.