But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.

Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan?

Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.