The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.