My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

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.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.