She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you’d be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation – expectation divided by reality – you didn’t get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
I don’t know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there’s just the long, messy climb out of the pit you’ve dug youself.
As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn’t lies.
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
You know how I get angry sometimes? That’s because it’s the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I’m really here.
These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn’t anymore.
The problem was, you couldn’t have one without the other. There couldn’t be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn’t be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.
You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.
When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.