I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you." -Kev to Win

She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.

But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.

I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the door.

Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.