“I think of the note.I want to say me too.I want to say I know.I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. Its my language t...”

“I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isnt a dream of flying. Its a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.”

“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.”

“I can hear my mom.I can hear her take a deep breath. I hear her pushing words out, and I can almost see her, for a second, the look on her face, her hand pressed to her own heart, the other in a fi...”

“I like the sky. Its rational to me in a way that life isnt. Looking at it doesnt suck the way you might think it would, given all the dying-girl-stares-at-heaven possibilities. I dont think of the ...”

“I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette...”

“Who judges the judge who judges wrong?”

“If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories wi...”

“You missed breakfast," Jason announced as Trevor stepped into the large busy kitchen filled with Bradfords and food."That's fine. I'm not really hungry," he said, barely aware or caring that all ac...”

“As much as you might hate me, you cant change the fact that I know you, Lily. And no matter how many times you say youre fine and everything is good, you should remember that I know when youre lying.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”