“I want you. I want you so badly I cant stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldnt truly see anything. Couldnt feel anything.”

“Sorry doesnt mean anything! Not when youre still with him. Its not just that you cheatedits that hes still here, and youre still with him. It just goes on and on, and it hurts every single time I s...”

“So instead of ignoring the pain, I called out to it, reaching for more. Pain is part of who I am. Its the defining characteristic of a Shifters transformation. Pain is what I suffer from my enemies...”

“When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He ...”

“I want to kiss you. Jaces whisper pulled me from my thoughts and I glanced up to find his eyes blazing with raw need. Just because Marc wont touch you doesnt mean I shouldnt. Right? I dont have tha...”

“I dont want to love himthis would be so much simpler if I didnt. But I do.Hes funny, and passionate, and strong, and he believes in me more than I even believe in myself. When he looks at me, I fee...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”