“I wasnt sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?”

“People tend to romanticise consciousness, as if its something spiritual. Its just a word we use to describe complexity.”

“A person is not the same as a toaster.”

“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.”