There are some losses we never get over.

Love: It will kill you and save you, both

Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again