“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy, Wren said. Its the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

“She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?”

“I dont trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyre going to get tired of me and take off.”

“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”

“When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.Im such an idiot, he said.Cath fell between...”

“Emergency dance party--go away.”

“There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.”

“It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order ...”

“You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena”