Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

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

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.