“Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.”

“I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.”

“I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you”

“No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.”

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)”

“It seemed such a short time ago that Erin had comerunning toward him, laughing, her black hair like silk around an elfin face. And he'd melted inside just atthe sight of her, gone breathless like a boy with his first real date. It still felt like that, despite her scars,her limp. In his heart, he carried a portrait of her that would withstand all the long, aging years, that wouldleave her young and unscarred for as long as he lived.”

“There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.”