When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.