I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.