If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.