It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

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

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

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

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.