“I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.”

“If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.”

“It’s a mistake, you know. You have no idea of what you’ll be exposed to…the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching…and that’s just at my house. Imagine what it would be like here.”

“Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.”

“If I'm to change my life for you, I've got to have some hope.""I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone.”

“I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you."He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.”

“I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.”