If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you.

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot’s been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?” “Yes. I make your feet tingle.” A smile came to his lips. “Among other things.