You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

Despite whoever created it, it's my world, & the only one I've got. Might as well make the best of it, right? Might as well have a little fun while I'm here. Or a lot of fun. Might be dead tomorrow.

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.