It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.

That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you’re alive?

So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.

He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure.

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.