you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

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

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.

You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.