Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

He was still in love with you, anyway.

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.