You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.