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Knowing you’re loved, truly loved, by at least one person makes all the difference in the world.
Satisfaction is the enemy of success. I’ll be proud of myself when I’ve got the whole damn world at my feet.
“I will pay you thirty-five thousand dollars if I never have to look at them again,”
“I only like big, thick sausages,”
“Not all of us get to be a rebel without a cause,” I say to him. Miles keeps his eyes locked on mine, his face unsmiling. “Oh, I’ve got plenty of causes,” he says.
Her dark hair streams behind her like a banner, and there’s a look of reckless abandon on her face, a wild determination that is instantly, painfully familiar to me. It reminds me of my mother.
“Every choice sets the table. Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.”
In an environment of skirts, pants are an expression of power.
“I’d say nobody on this dance floor looks better than you.”
Do you think you’re the only one here who will do something psychopathic? I’ll rip your throat out with my teeth, and I won’t lose a single night of sleep over it. You have no idea the lengths to which I’ll go.”
“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
Miles takes the forbidden and uses it to his advantage—wields it as a tool. I admire him. And god, how I envy him.
“You’re mine,” he growls. “All mine.” “I only want to be yours,” I sob. “Don’t let him take me.” “I promised you,” Miles says. “I don’t make promises easily. And I never break them after.”
“This is from a movie, too,” he says. “Do you know it?” I shake my head. “I’ll play it for you next time.” I look up into his face. “How many next times will there be?” “Infinite,” he says.
“The end of Titanic is Jack and Rose reunited.”
“In death.”
“It’s emotional catharsis all the same. You have to give the audi...
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I won’t give up Zoe. I can’t. I want her, or nothing at all.
One thing I know for certain: no man on this planet ever accomplished a goddamn thing without believing he could.
“The knives are sharp.”
“And the students are idiots, apparently.”
“Truth is your only chance for mercy,”
An absolute lie. There is no chance for mercy.

