There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.

Mean people are meaningless.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what had happened.

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.

Tell me you won't walk away again and I'll call the whole thing off.

Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.

She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.