“Shed passed the fear barrier, and shed lived, and shed discovered not certain death, as shed imagined, but impossible splendor. What other beautiful things had fear been hiding from her? What else ...”

“The old fear was there, the grapnel anchor lodged in her chest, the thing that wanted to pull her back away from the edge and whisper no, no, no. Yet there was a new thing: a lure. Something down i...”

“As she fell, Esther wasnt worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasnt worried about hitting the shallows and pin diving to the ocean floor and shattering her...”

“Esther supposed, as they held each other under a threadbare carpet of stars, that this was how it must always feel in the beginning. Yet even there, next to him, the most excellent person in the un...”

“Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every time he reminded her that he couldnt be saved, Esthers heart broke a little more.”

“The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”