Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.