When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.