What happens when you lose your heart's desire?

We're a bit sensitive to blood around here. I'm sure you can understand that.

It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen...

That’s why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye — because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had.