They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier." "A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her wrist. Link pushed away his plate, still covered with food. "So let me get this straight. We're gonna go down into the Tunnels and find this moon outta time with Liv's fancy watch?" "Selenometer." Liv didn't look up from copying numbers from the dials into her red notebook.

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.