“We obviously both have our pasts, but thats not important right now. I dont have to know every bad thing you ever did in your life to know that youre a good guy now. People change, grow up, get sma...”

“He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. SHEA”

“I cant take any more of being careful around her. I want her. Not just for now, but for always.HEW”

“For the first time since I met her, I understand her need to keep her name secret and respect that. Here, someplace other than at home, we can be who we want, be with who we want, as long as it mak...”

“All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. HEW”

“Shea is in my arms in seconds. Were not just holding each other but pressing out all the bad, letting it seep from us, and allowing it to disintegrate in the air, leaving room for only the good wit...”

“I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and f...”

“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation...”

“Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”

“Im memorizing what takes me away. What saves me.”

“My lips part, wanting to tell him a story, wanting to kiss him more than I want to breathe”

“I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.It was the f***ing story of my life.”

“In the past year Ive learned that love can make you do crazy, silly, stupid, ridiculous things. And the fact that one person can make you feel this way and do those things is amazing to me.”

“If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever.”

“Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I continued. Nuzzle inside the hollow of my bones. Let our breath...”