“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked. Genesis 3:7.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“I should get rid of those boxes, full of all that junk. Burn them all – make a bonfire in the garden and burn the bloody lot of it. All the captured bits of me, the scraps and pictures and notes and letters, burn it all, burn the lot of it – every last trace of me. Every last bit of me – up in flames and gone for good. Forgotten and gone. Rid me of these memories... Yes, that’s something to do this afternoon. Get out into the garden, and burn the past... To ashes with.”

“Perhaps, but this Awakening felt very different from those in the past. A peculiar sensation seemed tospread throughout his body, propelled by the very beating of his heart. Within his veins, lycan bloodmixed with his own, merging in an unexpected alchemical reaction. He felt a change come over him, afundamental transformation in his very nature. Power such as he had never known surged through hisveins. His eyes snapped open, revealing a pair of jet-black orbs. Hybrid eyes.”

“The unassuming inconspicuous halfway time between tomorrow and today, those slow frozen hours in-between, they’re something of a comfort to the drunk rolling home.”

“The things that matteredWere broken and shatteredOne by one”

“I truly loved you, but now I'm walking away”