“Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.”

“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”

“...There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.”

“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”

“I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.”

“I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty”

“I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he's charming and loving in his way. But he's selfish. He's a limited man determined to bring about his own end-""But-"Tom grabs both my hands in his and gives them a small squeeze. "Gemma, you can't save him. Why can't you accept that?"I see my reflection on the surface of the Thames. My face is a watery outline, all blurred edges with nothing settled. "Because if I let go of that" - I swallow hard, once, twice - "then I have to accept that I am alone."The ship's horn howls again as it slips out toward sea. Tom's reflection appears beside mine, just as uncertain."We're every one of us alone in this world, Gemma." He doesn't say it bitterly. "But you have company, if you want.”