Nine billion choices I’ve made over the course of my life could have changed where I am right now and where I’m headed. There’s no sense focusing on just one. Unless you want to punish yourself.

Believing in fate is like living on cruise control.

We can’t say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face.

“When it hurts so bad you don’t think you can stand it,” I say, “squeeze my hand.”

“Henry says that you don’t need the answer. You just need an answer.”

“But this is the way life has worked out. And I’m embracing it.”

Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I’m starting to think that when we don’t own them, we don’t own ourselves.

That’s what you do when you want something. You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will. So I’m searching, I’m digging, for ways to make it happen.

Everything that could happen is happening.

I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”