"I couldn't help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side to our innocent cover. I wondered what we would be like, if we had been completely honest with each other in the first place. Maybe more people would be alive, but then again, more people could be dead."

"The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed."

"He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel."

"A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, she said. 'It's often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters."

"I'd prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt.' (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)"

"We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team."

"My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)"

"I'm not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It's a fact of life."

"You can't make the world perfect, Daniel, ' Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand. 'No. I can't, ' I agreed. 'But I can sure help make it better."

"I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn't do that, I'd at least be there for her. (Eric)"

"Love was a lot more complicated when you had a lot of time on your hands."

"Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it."

"When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him."

"All love is immortal."

"With the smell so close, the ocean came into view only a few moments later, sometimes peeking between old brick buildings with bright blue eyes, other times peering for a lingering moment like long lost relatives seeing one another for the first time."

"Every monster could be saved."

"Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)"

"Just because I wasn't human, didn't mean I could discount human life. (Eric)"

"Luthicer hummed. 'You're either brave or very foolish.' 'What's the difference?' (Eric)"

"Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)"

"I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, and I hated it as much as I loved it. I could barely stand it. (Eric)"

"When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)"

"His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain - drenched clothes."

"War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival."

"Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective."

"Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness."

"I'm assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution.' (Eric)"

"No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave."

"The comfort was peculiarly chilling."

"I didn't even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn't need one to know her. (Eric)"

"I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. - Jessica"

"I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future."

"I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our flocks seemed to always love everyone around them. Even though they aren't always happy and can't always afford the bills, they are still glad to be alive."

"War?' The word held too much definition for three letters."

"She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true."

"Remember how far you've come, and you won't have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own."

"I would only blame myself if something happened to you."

"It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know."

"Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I'd be rewarded with his death, and we couldn't prevent that. No one could. (Eric)"

"It was almost painful to be different."

"I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time."

"I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes."

"What fueled this hatred? Society."

"I was a person full of wishes but without a star."

"My life wasn't horrible, but I didn't see any passionate reason to love it."

"Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn't make it better."

"I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness."

"I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so."

"I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?"

"I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed."