People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.