Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.

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

....They're called "better halves" for a reason, I guess. You can't have one half that's worse than you. It'd be a disaster.

You love who you love and that’s who you love.

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?

If not for love, then what else?

It's hard to believe someone who walks around commanding so much attention with his acute cockiness, hard muscles, and tattoos would ever let someone like me bring him to his knees-and make no mistake, I bring him to his knees. I bring him to his knees, hard.

I wanted a guy who made my stomach flutter, who was polite and respectful to everyone because he didn't think of anybody as beneath him, a man who did good things not because of what he’d gain but simply because it was the right thing to do. I wanted someone that cared about the injustices of the world and tried to help even if the issue didn't affect his life.

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