I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out." Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.