I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.