“Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”

“For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.”

“the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!”

“But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.”

“we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!”

“Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.”

“People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.”