I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.