“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling...”