I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.