"I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.