There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

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

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.