When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.