love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.