A feeling can't kill you.

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 don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

My sisters were in that van.

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.