I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.