“What rips you apart, keeps you glued.”

“You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.”

“When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”

“I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.”

“I swear to you, I will rip this world and every other one apart to get to you if you need me.”

“Killing rips the soul apart.”