No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?

You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!