“Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didnt want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It...”

“I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.”

“I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.”

“Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.”

“Take this wine glass for example. If I had poured milk into it and told you it was wine, would you be upset when you took the first sip, expecting the bite of fermented grapes and getting milk inst...”

“I am. Im rude because I dont conform to societys standards that white lies are inconsequential. I dont believe in hiding behind words that arent truthful. Im an impatient man. I dont beat around th...”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”