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

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.