I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”

“There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except y…”

“She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to kn…”

“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of …”