"It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse."
- Shelly Crane
"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A di..."
"Think with your eyes open."
"Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned i..."
"He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. “There it is.” He palmed his chest again and sighed. “All is right in the world again."
"You're killing me, little human."
"His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that."
"We have to be bigger than the things we suffer."
"You know when you’re on a course that you know is the right one. You can’t explain it, you can’t define it, you don’t know how you got there or what all the obstacles will be, you just know the end re..."
"When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?"