I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
Lauren OliverIf you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.
Lauren OliverBut the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it werenโt for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.
Lauren Oliver