I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.