Quotes from work

Lock and Key

“But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.”

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”

“Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all.

~Ruby, pg 38”

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

“Conciseness is underrated”

“You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.”

“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”

“Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it… that's when you get into trouble”

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”

“Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.”

“You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.”

“It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.”

“Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.”

“Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.”