You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a paragraph. I can't say it was intentional - but you know what they say about practice making perfect...!

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.