I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd, his arms crossed. "This island runs on courage, not blood," he says. His face is turned towards me, but his eyes are on Eaton and his groups. In the hush after he speaks, I can hear my heart thudding in my ears.

I wasn’t sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn’t hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull.

Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

Books are more real when you read them outside.

right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed