The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.

She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.