“And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and well do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.”

“What else can you tell me? Dad stares at me. What have you learned while you were awake?I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the...”

“Im here and hes not. That Im alive and hes”

“Ive heard that when youre in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and youre hyper-aware of whats...”

“The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than Ive ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they dont show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe...”

“I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. Thisthisthis is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”