Then you might have to kill everyone.” “So be it.” “Why are you so crazy?” I ask as I gently rest my forehead against his chest.

Don’t you ‘Kitten’ me!

Ye have ta ask me dat? Ye do na know dat ye are all dat madders ta me?

I do what I always do when the day has shown me its worst: I make do.

I ask God to bind my life to your life so that my mind will be one with your mind,” I repeat the words Phaedrus says while I gaze at Reed and hold his hand. “My heart may be one with your heart,” I recite it with a small smile on my face, “and my body may be one with your body,” I blush a little when I say this part, seeing desire register in Reed’s eyes. “From this moment through eternity, so let it be.

My only hope for survival lies in the knowledge that you are somewhere in this world, under the same sky, the same sun, the same stars.

It’s no good hating them. They can’t feel it, and it will only turn you bitter.

You never have had much luck, have you, Roselle?

He has an equal stack of pancakes on his plate. He picks up his fork and says, “You know these aren’t very good for Pretty Town.

Even swimming in sorrow, he won’t let me drown.