Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

Did you like it?" he said. "I could have given you...jewelry, but I wanted it to be something that was wholly yours. That no one else would hear or own. And I am not good with words, so I wrote how I felt about you in music." He paused. "Did you like it?

What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him?" Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. "Dudes," he said, "do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

I didn't know," he said. "I didn't know you needed me." Her voice shook. "I always need you

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

He will get through this, even if he thinks he won't.