That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.