So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.

Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin.

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity