Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him