“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.”

“Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.”

“We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.”

“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?”

“Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.”

“Innocence has no place alongside immortality.”

“And as we lingered in our intimate embrace, I knew that if I could freeze time right this second, I would.”