“i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.”

“There's no room for him in your head, Elle. I'm there. I'll always be there and if he tries to come in I'll drive him out until you're strong enough to do it yourself. And there was never room for him in your heart because I was already there. He couldn't touch your soul. It belongs to you and no one else unless you decide to share.”

“He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next.”

“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the man who made up my entire world, I was not enough for him.”

“Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.”

“The little room was full of ordinary things that had already become precious, that I couldn't help but want to have again, to feel like whoever it was I used to be, whether it was my past or someone else's.”