Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.