The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

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