“Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.”

“You know, you've never really cared about anyone," he said. "But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.”

“Oh, all right, you big baby," she said. "If you really want it. I should have gotten you a rattle and a pacifier, too.”

“He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all.”

“It would be like losing me, like losing my own soul, Rob said, but it was't really like him saying it to her, it was as if he were simply realizing these things himself. And now it's like finding my soul again. The other half of me.”

“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”

“Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?”