“Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the unce...”

“I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.”

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”

“Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.”

“Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.”

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”

“You okay?Its a residential street, but its not the street of the party.I shake my head no.Are you going to be okay? he asks.I lean back, resting my head against the seat, and close my eyes. I miss ...”

“Hi, I'm Day. Hi, I'm June.”

“You okay?”It’s a residential street, but it’s not the street of the party.I shake my head no.“Are you going to be okay?” he asks.I lean back, resting my head against the seat, and close my eyes. “I...”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”