So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.

Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book “for boys” or “for girls” is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.