When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

It's choice that makes us human.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.