My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.