Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

Sweet,” he whispered, and stole a kiss from her lips. “Sweet… let me stay with you a little longer.” -Jack to Amanda

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.