She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.

I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.

What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.