Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

I want to drag you off and hide you away,” he whispered. “Why?” “I always knew you were beautiful, but now everyone else will too. I won’t be able to keep other boys away from you, and it’ll make me crazy.

Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.