“Its just so strange.You used to love me,and now youre a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.”

“Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.”

“All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.”

“My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and overEvery day. That is the best andworst part of me.”

“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying tree climb jumps. Growing up, my backyard was a forest of blackberry bushes. ...”

“But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though its nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.”

“Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.”

“I want to make you hold onto that bag while I bury myself in you so hard and so deep you don't know your own name. -Nick Rixey”

“My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that ...”

“Do it with passion or not at all.”