“I meant it when I said I didnt believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and th...”

“Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.”

“He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.”

“Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.”

“But just because somethings been damaged doesnt mean its ruined.”

“Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.”

“Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.”

“Tell me why. My voice shook. Tell me right now.”

“Im going, and dont you dare try to stop me.I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”