“What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?”

“No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.”

“It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.”

“That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.”

“So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.”

“Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.”

“Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.”

“Don't make me sit through reality.”

“My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.”

“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...”

“Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again.”

“They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.”

“I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.”