“Beginnings are easy, but after that, happiness takes some work.”

“We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.”

“And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.”

“Somewhere in between, I had fallen for that boy.”

“At least, when theres fear, theres some human part left in you. Once thats gone, though, there is nothing.”

“I forced my eyes open and saw the image thats haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.”

“Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.”

“I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew y...”

“Each night we watched the sun set no matter where we were, and we'd wake up early to witness it rising again. That was the thing about life: even when the days faded to black, you were always given...”

“Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take ...”

“Happiness is my drug of choice.”