Kiss me like you want to live.—Lachlain.

Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. “For me?” “Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist “All your own.

I said alone!”He nodded in agreement. “Aye, you usually say that, and I still stay. It’s our way.

Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.

She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right.

She stretched, pulling out her earbuds, which apparently in Lykae was code for 'Interogate me, ' because the questions, they came a-calling.

I believe in times of adversity there’s a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you’ll never be the same.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.

We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

The opposite of compromise is character.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.