...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.