None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

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

My sisters were in that van.

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

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.