There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?