It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.

No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.

like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.

I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

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