You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.

I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.

I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything.

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me

You must hurt, or be hurt.