And I’m trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there. All soft and inviting… and all I can think about is having them on my body.

Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.

Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

I'm a little superstitious.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

There comes a time to join the side you're on.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out.