“We're in this together, until the ocean waves crash on our feet." "You really paint this Guatala as a paradise.""If you're there with me, it will be.”

“Javier put me back together only to break me again.”

“That's the trouble with pain, Ellie. If you're lucky, you can wear it for all the world to see. Most people have their pain deep inside, in places no one ever goes. Not until it's too late.”

“You're not going to make me promise you something, because that's what they say in the movies, the person who never comes back.”

“He was like a living, breathing painting on an all-male canvas.”

“Perry," he said quietly, his fingers trailing down the side of my face, "you'll never have to save my life. You gave me life. I never lived a single day until the first day I met you.”

“I shot him an unimpressed look. “Do you really think you’ll win me over by having sex with me?”He scratched at the side of his chin. “Well, they say the way to a woman’s heart is through her vagina.”