“At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.”

“Theres an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget shes older than me. Then, I remember that she hasnt gone through what Ive gone through.”

“I know you dont understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward, he says.”

“I dont give sick days if youre playing in the snow. Hes being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.”

“Who am I kidding? This isnt a fairy tale. Its my life.”

“This world isnt a fair place, because we never know how much time weve really got.”

“To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.”

“Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”

“Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise c...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”