“I didnt tell him I'd thought of him every day. That even when every other memory had faded, he never left. - Nikki”

“I told him about how Cole wanted me to return with him.I told him almost everything. I didn't talk about what had happened just before I left with Cole and I didn't tell him that the Tunnels of the Everneath were coming for me soon. Jack would freak out if he knew I was leaving again, and I didn't want to waste time trying to convince him it was hopeless.I didn't tell him I'd thought of him every day. That even when every other memory had faded,he never left.”

“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.”

“I'd let him get under my skin, and now he had started to occupy my every thought.”

“I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.”

“Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend - maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt just seem washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breath in my lungs. And air sacs.”