Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

Piensa que soy más débil de lo que en realidad soy, lo cual debería irritarme. En lugar de eso, le miro casi con asombro, porque me esta tratando como a una dama y no como a una criada. Alec desea cuidarme, a mí, que siempre he tenido que atender las necesidades de otro. Aunque pequeño, jamás esperé ni siquiera un gesto como ese de un hombre rico. De nadie, en verdad. Inopinadamente, me doy cuenta de lo maravilloso que sería tener a alguien cuidara de mí de vez en cuando.

Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.

Yours was the most beautiful face I'd ever seen because it was the only face I'd ever truly seen. You were the person I saw inside.