People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

And sometimes, if I was really, really lucky, he’d smile at me. A real smile, too—not the dry one that accompanied the sarcasm we tossed around so often. I didn’t want to admit it to anyone—not to Lissa, not even to myself—but some days, I lived for those smiles.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose