“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.”

“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.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”