That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with Chapter One: I Am Born, you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.