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.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.