I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.

Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

Love always comes first.

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.

I guess my parents really screwed me up somewhere along the line because as good as they are to me, as much as they do for me and as much as I love them, I still managed to grow up terrified I would end up just like them. Unhappy and only pretending to live out this wonderful life with two kids, a dog and a white picket fence. But in reality, I knew they sleep with their backs facing each other.

I’m not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It’s there sitting dormant. I’ll know it when I see it.

Beautiful but defeated and damaged. Damaged for the rest of her life and no amount of emotional mutilation will ever fully give her back her innocence. The girl is a ticking time bomb, a danger to herself and very possibly to others. I wasn’t sure before, but now I know that she is more unstable than I ever could have imagined. And because she is so skilled at hiding it, not only from me but also from herself, she is more dangerous than I am.

He never leaves my side. And I know he never will.

You dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life.” “Live in the moment,” he says as if making a serious point, “Where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.