All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me.

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.

He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowned.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.