Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.

I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.