Quotes from book

Every Day

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”

“I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.”

“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”

“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”

“I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

“I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.”

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.”

“All I get is tomorrow.”

“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”

“She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.”

“There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”

“I only have eyes for you.”

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

“I am starting to get tired of relying on words.”

“Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.”

“There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”