“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”

“She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?""Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.”

“Hes fine. Every time any of us are late you imagine were dead. You are no longer allowed to imagine anyone is dead.Im not imagining hes dead, I whisper, but Im totally imagining him bleeding to dea...”

“So theres this annual dance in a couple of weeks.The Winter Ball, I interrupt. There have been signs up everywhere.You want to go?I think about it for a half second. Will you dress up?He nods.I mov...”

“Nick leans down and kisses my eyelids. Loving you, Zara, is a full-time job. Its a great job, dont get me wrong. Its the best job in the universe. But it is not easy, because you tend to . . .Get h...”

“Well fight them. We took down my dad. Weve taken down so many since then. Well take down these jokesters too.I will never let anything happen to you, Nick growls into my hair. I will die before you...”

“I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but b...”

“Observe the things you are instintively attracted to, they are often linked to your purpose and path in life.”

“Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skillslike intelligence and physical prowessbecause men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at ...”

“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”

“Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way”

“I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”