From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

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.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.