"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"
"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
"you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry"
"She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer."
"You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?"
"You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about."
"So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here"
"If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside."
"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for."
"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?"
"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"
"He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."