“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.”

“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.”

“Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade”

“How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens.”

“Shiiiit. Cade weighs a lot. Way more than I thought!” I moaned/sang.”

“Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.”

“In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.”

“What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.”

“Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.”

“But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.”

“I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”

“we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.”