My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

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