“Monsters dont get happy endings.”

“I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.”

“Were like magnets, you know. Only Im spinning, so I keep pulling you in and then pushing you away. I like you, but then you hurt me, so I run. I like you, but then something makes things feel impos...”

“I think about the way Baz teased me earlier, how he wanted to know what it felt like to have someone who would do anything for me. Maybe it sounds comforting to know there is a person out there who...”

“Jesse stirs again. This time his fingers twitch. As much as I want to see him open his eyes, I cant be here for that. Itll make leaving him too hard. I turn toward the doorway and Im outside in the...”

“I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy...”

“What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that like he was running out of time.”

“Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.”

“What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no en...”

“For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generationsthe casualties can never be fully counted.Every war, no matter how...”

“Have you ever dealt with people who have lost everything in just an hour? In the morning you leave the house where your wife, your children, your parents live. You return and you find a smoking pit...”

“Success is the best revenge.”

“Revenge sex is not something we seek, but once in your mouth it can be liberating if you just swallow.”