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.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.