The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

Creative" "Dangerously emo.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

Why did everything feel like saying good-bye?

There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.

You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.