Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

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?

Tell freedom I said hello.

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.

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

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.