So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.

I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.