Diana Peterfreund citations

“Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity
and pain.”

“In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.”

“Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.”

“Three syllables and three thousand memories.”

“There was that word again. Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?”

“Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.”

“See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.”

“If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.”

“I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.”

“I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.”

“….. It means everything. It means I love you. It means I want you. It means I want you to be okay. It means everything.”