Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted.

What do you mean? Grace Brisbane, you do not mean that you're not going back home again. Tell me that this was just because you were momentarily angry at them for grounding you. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night. But don't tell me you think it's forever!

Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

Wow, you're never allowed to sleep late again. You're crankier than a fat guy in stilettos.

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.