It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

Good God. Men everywhere.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

We can try and push eachother away, we can try and deny what we feel but when two hearts have connected and two souls have been reminded of love there is simply no way fate can keep us apart.

You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team the "Espoo Blues" for nothing.

May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here.

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Worry about him? I never even heard of him.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.