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

Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

Clancy had taught me well.

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

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.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.