The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.