“Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”

“I love you more than I think I should.”

“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.”

“I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

“You're a guardian angel now." I was still too much in awe to wrap my mind around it, but at the same time I felt amazement, curiosity...happiness."I'm your guardian angel," he said."I get my very o...”