I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.