Tell freedom I said hello.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

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.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.

Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?