“Hope could be dangerous, desire could be catastrophic.”

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”

“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”

“If only the desire to see could be as strong as the desire to unsee. ”

“I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew.”

“once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt
but that was the worst thing that I could do”

“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”

“She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”

“Allison squinted at the strange, catastrophic sky, and took another step, another step, another step, because in the future - she could see it - this would not be happening.”

“Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.”