“You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, butI never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesnt matter to me what ...”

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”

“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. Thats what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. Thats all you can do.”

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory without emptiness.”

“The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.”

“Let her go, Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.”

“I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, t...”

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and" He stood u...”

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

“No. Hes like me at the moment. Were both nomadic. Hes still in the military. Currently training SEALs in Coronado, California. Im sorry, training seals? To do what? Boomer grinned. He didnt underst...”

“The sound was like a gentle breeze of joy on a warm summer day. It wrapped around his senses and his heart. That was the moment, and he knew hed be telling her about it fifty years from now when sh...”

“For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”