Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.