The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.