People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this." "Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid." I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade.

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.