“You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.”

“Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

“I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I've caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I'm near you.”

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. 'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

“We have to save the world," I reminded him. He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't.”

“You choose what you can live with and what you can't live without.”

“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”