Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton

Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.