Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.

Resisting is worth doing.

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.