I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely…must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it
Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too
Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference
I don’t believe in love." “It’s not a religion,” he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not
We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about
Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start
There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it
