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

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.