If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.