I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.

I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.