Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.

With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility

Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.

It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.

I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.