So to catch a madman, we have to think like a madman?” “I wouldn’t advise it,” Cassie said very quietly. “That abyss is darker and colder than you can even imagine.

Death takes people away from us all our lives. We have to move on. Or die ourselves.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not... And death shall have no dominion.

There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They’re buried deep, usually, and that’s where they belong.

Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.

He said to tell you that when you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s a little difficult to remember that your main objective was to drain the swamp.

I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others.

But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It’s where life starts.

I know what I don’t want. I don’t want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can.

Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you’ll ever do.