“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

“I feel like real love should take time, or at least, more time than this. I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over, but I feel how I feel, and I k...”

“Youre insane, I told him, and stood up to dress.He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, Insane for you, my love.”

“He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each others suffering, and wedidnt now.”

“I loved your eyes first, I told him , repeating his words from a few weeks ago back to him, because it was true, and because we were two halves of a wholewe had been all along, and hed been so clev...”

“I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”