“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”

“Did you think you could stop me? I’ll burn the world down to save her.”

“Looking at him now-even if she hadn’t been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother’s daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.”

“You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.”

“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”

“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”

“Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”

“I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.”

“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”