Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.
In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.
There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.
Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.
You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all.
Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.
Our eyes, locked together, speak more naked truths than our mouths ever have.
Naked truths aren’t always pretty.
I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.
All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.
You can stop swimming now. We finally reached the shore.[to Lily]
