Aryn Kyle quotes:

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, itâ??s everything.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

Marriage, she said quietly, is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.