Quotes from book

The Tenth Circle

“It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.”

“it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.”

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

“The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.”

“Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

“Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant… it is always painful”

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”

“It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”