I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.

If you don't open up, we're going to lose each other down the road

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. “I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I’m with you. Just tell me what I have to do.

I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.