And I decided I'd rather love too much than not at all.

My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.

I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple.

Oh, sunshine, I whisper and smile gently. Haven't you figured out that I'm completely in love with you?

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.