“Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the unce...”

“I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.”

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”

“Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.”

“Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.”

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”

“So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.”

“I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.”

“I don't want--to go--I don't want--to leave you--Eden--”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”