Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.

I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend, see? I groaned. My explanations were making my head hurt already.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

Lucas," I repeated. "I know you can hear me. The guy I love is still in there. Come back to me." Once again longed for the release of tears. "Death couldn't keep me from you. And it can't keep you from me, not if you don't let it.

It wasn't badass. I don't really do badass.