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 can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.

I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.