“I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to d...”

“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did notintellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere be...”

“No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you. He leaned in. It fucking kills me. Every night. I relive what I did to you every night. His forehead res...”

“I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days....”

“As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight.”

“All right, she said a little sarcastically. I was going to assume you liked eating babies and sacrificing virgins, but I might as well ask, what do you do for fun?I languish in sin, I replied in th...”

“Though Trish and her bad boy types weren't exactly Kindra's style, she had to agree that Violet went for quiet and uninteresting. Sort of like mild salsa. Why even bother? You'd be better off just ...”

“Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”

“I think its the whole bad boy whos so good but destined to break your heart fantasy. Which doesnt sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.”

“I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved.”

“Dont be sorry. You could hurt me a thousand different ways and Id love it every time.”

“Don’t be sorry. You could hurt me a thousand different ways and I’d love it every time.”

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

“This should never have happened, Brishen. We were unimportant, you and I. We weren't supposed to mean anything to anyone.""Woman of day," he said slowly. "You mean everything to me.”

“Aku percaya, tak pernah ada kata salah untuk cinta.”