Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.