You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.

Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.

Till I loved I never lived.

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

When you have to jump, you jump.

A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.