Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case.