There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass.

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.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

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

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures.