Books tell us stories, they allow us to vicariously live out snippets of other lives, but they cannot take you in their arms and comfort you when you’re scared.

It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn’t see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.

To tell the world what truly matters to you is to make yourself vulnerable.

Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works. She had reached a point in her life where she no longer expected anything from men, though that didn’t stop her from falling in love with them.

Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

The other mitigating circumstance was my thinking that I knew all there was to know about love because I’d read novels when, in fact, the only thing that truly teaches us about life is a punch in the face.

Now he could say for sure that he’d never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person – that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

Your soulmate can also be your downfall.

Elle avait tout fait pour le retenir, mais parfois tout n’est pas suffisant.

You only really deserve love if you give your whole body and soul to it, throwing yourself in and risking everything.