“You know, at least Gabriel showed up announced like a gentleman. He even told Mila that she looked beautiful. You and your toothpick just show up, scaring me half to death.”

“Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you’re actually real. That much beauty is dangerous.”

“You don’t look beautiful.” Hunter smiled as the cool night air hit my face.“Thanks.”“You look sexy.”

“His words hit me. He knew about Mila’s and Gabriel’s love… perhaps he could change things. If he did, Eli and I could be together freely, but until then there was no happy ending. I could feel it. The love that Eli and I have was great, but when has any great love in history ended well? Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, or Tristan and Isolde? Each and every one ended in tragedy, be it death or banishment.”

“Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn’t slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there’s nothing left. Then what?”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“Knowing that someone here cared aboutme was like being given a box of matches when you’re stranded on a cold, deserted island.”