“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

“I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!”

“Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day”

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

“Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”

“Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”

“I'm sorry," he says."What? Why?""You're fixing everything I set down." He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. "It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things.""O...”

“That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"My back squirms. "You've asked me that before.""What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been ”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”