I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.

Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.