The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.

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

I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

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.

I can't make it fade.