"I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?"
- Tabitha Suzuma
"At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves."
"How can something so wrong feel so right?"
"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong."
"I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to..."
"At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never."
"But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the brig..."
"The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain."
"Everything hurts. He can barely lie still. He feels caught. He wants to run, but where? He feels certain he will always remain like this - trapped within his own body, his own mind. The emotional pain..."
"I dial her mum's number, then sit down cross-legged, facing the wall. When she comes on the line, she sounds uncertain, hesitant. 'Hey! Guess where I am?' I ask, my voice loud with false cheer. 'Rami ..."