Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

This is why angels choose sides, why people join teams. It costs too much not to; it weighs too heavily to soldier on alone.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he’d given up all hope.

They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I don't get it." "So they're taking it slow. What's wrong with that?" Bill asked. "Kids today, they just want things to go fast-- boom boom BOOM.

She liked the way he smelled - kind of free and open, like driving with the windows down at night.

Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.