“Could you ever completely give up on someone that you loved? From her painful experience with Travis, Lily didn’t think so..”

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”

“I’d had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn’t somethingyou ever really got used to.It seemed oddly inevitable, though, facing death again. Like I really was markedfor disaster. I’d escaped time and time again, but it kept coming back for me.Still, this time was so different from the others.You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone youhated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers—the monsters,the enemies.When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How couldyou run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If yourlife was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?If it was someone you truly loved?”

“Love is giving someone the power to completely destroy you, and hoping that they won’t”