I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever….

I Believe in Bonnie and Clyde the sign read. Finn read it again, and then again, not sure what to make of it. Then he looked at Bonnie and shrugged. “So?” … “So?” she hissed....

I don’t think we get answers to every question. We don’t get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can,...

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn’t believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought...

This is just me. Get used to it.

True beauty, the kind that doesn’t fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant...

La vera bellezza, quel tipo di bellezza che non scompare, che non viene lavata via richiede sempre tempo. Esige costanza e resistenza.E’ la goccia che scivola lenta a formare la stalattite, il tremore costante della...

…and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

Sometimes funny is all you’ve got.

Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

Love songs or poetry?Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.And you can’t dance to poetry.

I wondered how he’d learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

I like red.

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

Shakespeare said, ‘the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

The road was so dimly lighted.There we;re no highway signs to guide.But they made up their minds,If all roads were blind,They wouldn’t give up ’til they died….

When you kissed me, Clyde? I felt more in that one pissed-off kiss than I felt in those three or four attempts at making love. And I realized it wasn’t a lie, after all. That...

I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the...

Usually redemption implies rescue – being saved. What were you being saved from?’ he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. ‘Ugliness.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.

This place is in my heart, but it can’t be my home, not now, maybe not ever…” – Samuel Yates

…There’s a lot I don’t understand…but not understanding is better not believing” – Ambrose

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

What softened your heart?” I asked softly.”Good music and a friend.”I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. “Music has incredible power””So does...

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.

Because sometimes we fall in love with aface and not what’s behind it.

We weren’t so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

I need you, Fern. I’m not going to lie. I need you. But I don’t need you the same way Bailey did. I need you because it hurts when we’re apart. I need you because...

The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect. And...

This was part of what made Rome so successful. They didn’t try to make everyone Romans in the process of conquering them. When I went to Africa with the Peace Corp, a woman who worked...

Everybody is a main character to someone…

Oh Josie,” Samuel sighed gently. “Your heart is too tender for your own good.””I don’t usually cry like this, Samuel. Geez, it’s been years since I’ve cried like this. Since you’ve been back I can’t...

This thing we have, it hurts, he continued. But the pain is almost sweet because it means YOU happened. We happened. And I can’t regret that, no matter how little or how long I get...

meant to be” is a cop out. It’s a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be...

The Itsy, Bitsy Spider.” I’ve loved you since you quoted Hamlet like you understood him, since you said you loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but...

Caring about someone doesn’t mean taking care of them.