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

“When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.”

“If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.”

“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that y…”

“It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another …”