If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.