I definitely wasn’t cold. I was liquid heat. I was terror and curiosity and denial disguised as indifference.

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

Death is easy. Living is the hard part.

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.