"A gift of love is not one to be taken lightly."

"Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting."

"You always knew, after shitty things happened, who your friends really were."

"How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they had been sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way that he could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Main, but as long as she was with him, he was at home?"

"And, after all, what is a lie? "Tis but the truth in masquerade. - Lord Bryon"

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. - Daniel Webster"

"I know what it's like, suddenly discovering something you should have noticed a long time ago. They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer."

"Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance."

"There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you preceive it."

"When you love someone, you let them take care of you."

"He dreamed of the the worst things he could imagine: She was a drug addict; she was a lesbian; she had cheated on the SATs-all things that would not make him stop loving her."

"I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for the love of their life and never finding it, and we've got it and it isn't worth a damn to you."

"When you had been with someone your whole life, you could not imagine living in a world that did not have her in it."

"He loved her so much that life wasn't worth living without her. That's not a crime, ladies and gentlemen. That's a tragedy."

"When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces."