“She can look at you and make you feel like youre the only one in the world. Even if its not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would be true. She would look at her child f...”

“We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it”

“She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two points of her clavicle. Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, ...”

“Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.”

“The digging continues ... Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire. No smoke ... What was war becomes peace, becomes peaceful. But in the...”

“He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember. I didn't want to hear him that night. When I was ready to change I'd change. ...”

“The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.”

“She is such a blade-beautiful, powerful, and deadly to her enemies-as well as her bond-mate due to her fatal flaw. The questions areHow deep is her flaw and can it be healed? After all, a mortal is...”

“The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.”

“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas....”

“It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more...”

“She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.”

“Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.”