“You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do. ”

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”

“You act like I just want to sleep with you...I want to EVERYTHING with you.”

“You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.”

“Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.”

“You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.”

“When I could talk, I said, "I don't know what I did wrong."Dena sighed, "You care too much.”