I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

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

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