Why don’t you and Patrick actually talk to each other?” Tab said. Em looked up. “Are you demented? And say what?

When she was eight years old, Bridget Barsamian woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told her she shouldn’t be alive.

Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don’t have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn’t mean that it’s a real veil. And it isn’t about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn’t think in those ways. It’s just her way of saying that most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

Thirteen broken bones and a punctured lung. You must have been put on this earth for a reason, little girl, to have survived.

I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn’t told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there’s a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can’t see what it looks like.

The guy is looney,’ Belle said thoughtfully, ’but also generally polite. Polite is always worth something.

Sometimes your body feels like a cage for all the stuff inside. You paint your nails, braid your hair, and buy the right kind of jeans, but none of it is really about you.

Tab’s mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had ‘long, hard roads ahead’ and that you should just wish them well.

There are people who will try to make you choose between who you are and who they want you to be. You have to watch out for those people.

He nodded like he felt sorry for me and my stupid brain. ‘I think that’s probably because of your common sense. You can’t accept the idea of arriving before you leave, the idea that every moment is happening at the same time, that it’s us who are moving – ’ Enough was enough.