As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.