If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.