What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!