“I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.”

“I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.”

“Don't let others expectations direct the course of your life.”

“-Hardly knowing what i was doing, i began to hit the table with one hand as i sang in a low voice. Big cows" -thump- "lumps of meat" -thump. His widened. "Give me milk" -thump- "warm and sweet."I s...”

“The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.”

“The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candlem, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”