We all have little tricks we play on our minds to make life bearable.

Fiction is best served alone.

Death is big,” Dare acknowledges. “But there are things bigger than that. If there’s not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.

She said... Branden, the best things in life are worth the greatest risk. Sometimes, before we fall, we fly.

He kisses me with abandon, like he’s not afraid of the consequences, like it’s only him and me, and there’s nothing else around us.

Because traditions are soothing when everything else goes to hell.

She’s the reason I came to your house, remember? She called me or I wouldn’t have known that things were so bad. She loves you, Pax. And if there’s anything that you should take away from this is that you need to live for today. Tomorrow is not promised to you.

Because true love never fails. It never dies. It just goes on and on and on. Forever.

I love you, too,” I tell him quickly. “I have for weeks.

I don’t want to start over again,” she says slowly. “I like what we had. I don’t want to re-do it. I love you, Pax. But I don’t know if I can handle it if you leave me like that again. You shut me out and i couldn’t help you. That’s not what people do when they love someone. You ripped my heart out and stomped on it.