Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

My good mood felt like an endangered species.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Knowing what I was, and wanting me, anyway.