“You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, butI never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesnt matter to me what ...”

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”

“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. Thats what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. Thats all you can do.”

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory without emptiness.”

“The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.”

“Let her go, Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

“I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.”

“Every living soul in this universe should be given a chance at love their personal shot at having the most powerful andmysterious thing that ever existed. You could love forever, or your love coul...”

“I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this.”

“Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”

“The fatal problem with poetry: poems.”