I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.