“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”

“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”

“You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try”

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”

“You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”

“The point wasn’t that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.”

“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better…”

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

“He couldn’t handle what it meant to have somebody in love with you. Running away was the only thing he knew how to do.”

“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”