There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.