It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.

She heard Adrian say to Christian, ʺYou know, your shirtʹs kind of grungy-looking. Seems like you could put in a little more effort since youʹre dating a princess.ʺ

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.