I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.