You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

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.

This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.

It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

He looked at me like I was beautiful.