I'm trying to keep"― he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him―"my promise!" I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming. "When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree?

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

I couldn’t get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain.