The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

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

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.