Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.

She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.

He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. “You don’t know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and don’t just go wherever they’re told or drift whichever way they’re pushed.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty sure that whatever was buzzing against my thigh was not normal. For one thing, it was ringing. Ben dragged his mouth away from mine and mumbled a curse that was a little shocking and kind of hot. "Ignore it," he said. That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.