Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. "I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?