“We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.”

“I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.”

“I knew him, but I don't understand him.”

“There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.”

“I'd known him less then forty-eight hours and already I'd seen how he looked when he came, tasted his cooking, and had my ass handed to me playing Dance Dance Revolution, and now I was going to practically be living with him.”

“He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean.Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.”

“I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.”