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 first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

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

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

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