For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

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

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."