God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere." "That's not true!" "It is," he said. "I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're-" "Closed in," Michael said. "Trapped," Shane added. "Idiots," Claire finished.