Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.