Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.

Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.

Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.

Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.