I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

No more Dane,” he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. “I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him.” “It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.

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.

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.