It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.