This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?

The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.