“I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.”

“If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.”

“I am not him, Kia. Your dead husband... was an asshole. And now he's gone. You're in bed with me... I'm here because I wanna be here... and when we're done talkin' about that asshole and he's gone again, I'm gonna get you wet and hot for me and I'm gonna be in you because I wanna be in you...There are not many men who would not kill [to be here] and that man is now me and and he's gonna be me for a good long time.”

“Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare”

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

“Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.”