“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.”

“Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.”

“She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.”

“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here.”

“She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?”

“I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.”