I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me.

And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.

He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.