No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

We all have stories we tell ourselves, until we believe them to be true.

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

I don't really understand this. When you have so many people, each one inevitably fascinating, why would you limit yourself to only those like you?

I sigh. “But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . .” My voice trails off.“Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy?” Oliver asks gently. “Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you?