All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world. But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.

Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps. Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?

As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?