We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations