My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.

I love you,” he said fiercely. “ ’Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. You’ve always owned it. I didn’t give it to you. You took it from the very start.

He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.