...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.