“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”

“Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.”

“Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.”

“The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.”

“Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.”

“Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.”

“As Tristan left the darkroom he heard Lacey’s soap opera voice. “And so our two heroes part,” she said, “blinded by love, neither of them listening to the wise and beautiful Lacey”—she hummed a little—“who, by the way, is getting a broken heart of her own. But who cares about Lacey?” she asked sadly. “Who cares about Lacey?”