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.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

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

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.