We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

Says the girl with no thyme.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.