I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to preten….

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places..

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back..

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach th….

I like the way men cry. They're efficient..

The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it shoul….

I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to….

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted..

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too..

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?.

A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the pho….