You don’t really believe there’s a good way to say good-bye forever, do you?

I knew then the difference between what I had with Jack and the twisted thing I had with Cole. Jack was real. Cole was a drug, artificial and simulated.

If you stand off to the side, all mopey and such, without a date, you’ll stick out like a nun at a strip club.

Who loses hope first? And who never gives up? Because it’s not the supernatural abilities that set mythical characters apart. It’s the decisions the human characters make, in impossible situations, that have us still talking about them centuries later. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

It’s in your eyes. I’ve done what I thought was impossible. I made you love me, but not in the way I needed. You love me as your friend.

I wanted to savor every tidbit with Rafael. It was like a good book, one I’d been waiting for and anticipating, and once I’d gotten it in my hands, I couldn’t bear to read one single page because that would be one fewer page I would get to read.

I didnt tell him I’d thought of him every day. That even when every other memory had faded, he never left. – Nikki.

Sometimes, when someone keeps forgiving someone else, it becomes too much.

Were you looking for this, Nik?” He took out a tiny triangular piece of plastic. His guitar pick. “My heart. You missed.

Recognizing beauty isn’t optimism. It’s living with your eyes open.