And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.

It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?

I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.

Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.