..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

Arrogance can be deadly.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Who wants to kill you?” the guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. “There’s nobody there,” the girlfriend told me. “You’re making them think they can’t see you, aren’t you?” I said to Patch, awed by his power even as I despised his use of it.

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.