“I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.”
“I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.”
“My heart swells at the mere thought of him and I know I've fallen too far, so much further than I wanted to.”
“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.”
“I'd fallen. Fallen hard. But not so far that I couldn't pick myself up.”
“I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.”