Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.

You are actually the worst person I have ever met.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.