But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton

One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.