What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side.

You are actually the worst person I have ever met.

Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form." "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-

Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.