A strange thing, words. Once they’re said, it’s hard to imagine they’re untrue.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that’s what being a parent is...

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The stronger twin develops normally, while the weaker twin crumples and is...

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

Her smile is her revenge.

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn’t seem fair that we only...

I still don’t know where you came from,” he says. “Some days it’s like you just fell from the sky.””Some days I feel like I did.” I say.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, ‘”Real’ is a dirty word in this place’.

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

I ‘d never seen him cry; I didn’t think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can’t return from it.

It doesn’t matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

There’s a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.