Unlocked

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.

My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.

He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.

But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.

I'll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

We're friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.

I do believe you would have cut the rope.

...what started with those simple requirements -- make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt -- turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.

When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.

Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.

I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.