Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.