It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.