When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.