Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful. Think of the way we adore the Throne. That adoration makes us the best version of ourselves. We feel encouraged to go further with or instincts, not to change ourselves for love. If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.

The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

I will always catch you when you fall

She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.