“All things worth having are worth fighting for.”
“Most people would say that being in love was the best feeling in the world, and to some degree, I would agree with them, but not when all you could think about was losing it or watching something awful happen so that your heart shatters into a thousand tiny, jagged little pieces. No, being in love was more frightening than gratifying.”
“Because I’m in love with you. Because I love my life with you in it. Because a world where someone as special as you lives, can’t be the horrible place I once thought it was.”
“Don’t worry, Ashton, he can’t hurt me anymore, no one can. I have nothing left to lose,” I said honestly.”
“I’ve given you the power to kill me and you don’t even know it.”
“What we want and what happens are two different thing entirely.”
“The alcohol induced memory loss is a form of protection from all the stupid things you did the night before.”
“All things worth having are worth fighting for,”
“This girl and this baby were my world, and the only things I needed out of life. I just hoped I could somehow make them as happy as they both made me.”
“Well, he told me you were a flirt who would try and get me into bed, but damn, I didn’t realise you’d start before nine in the morning.”
“In the moonlight, he looked devastatingly beautiful.”
“It was an unfamiliar sensation to me, but I knew what it was. It was love.”
“Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane.”
“My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth.”
“shocked expressions, but Ashton looked incredibly angry.”
“lives. In some cultures, it’s even considered to be the start of passage into womanhood. My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth. March 12 was the day my dreams died and my life was sent into a downward spiral of pain, grief and terror. My sixteenth birthday”
“Right now I was standing in the cold of the night, queuing for admittance outside club Ozone – unknowingly waiting for my traumatic ordeal to begin.”
“Do you want help?"
"No."
"Do you need help?”
“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”
“There was a lot of pot and kettle going on here.”
“I generally find,' Clent murmured after a pause, 'that it is best to treat borrowed time the same way as borrowed money. Spend it with panache, and try to be somewhere else when it runs out.'
'And when we get found, Mr. Clent, when the creditors and bailiffs come after us and it's payment time...'
'...then we borrow more, madam, at a higher interest. We embark on a wilder gamble, make a bigger promise, tell a braver story, devise a more intricate lie, sell the hides of imaginary dragons to desperate men, climb to even higher and more precarious ground...and later, of course, our fall and catastrophe will be all the worse, but later will be our watchword, Mosca. We have nothing else - but we can at least make later later.”
“Ranulf had spent much of his life watching those he loved wrestle with the seductive, lethal lure of kingship. It had proved the ruination of his cousin Stephen, a good man who had not made a good king. For his sister Maude, it had been an unrequited love affair, a passion she could neither capture nor renounce. For Hywel, it had been an illusion, a golden glow ever shimmering along the horizon. He believed that his nephew had come the closest to mastery of it, but at what cost?”
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