“Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.”

“Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”

“Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?”

“We kissed for aboutthe thousandth time,No promises,no demands,Just solid rebuildingof shattered trust.”

“Shane was born perfectly fine, despite the same genetic pairing. One in four.That's what their odds were. God gave Shelby SMA. Shane just got "gay".”

“I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doingeverything just right? Taking no chances meanswasting your dreams.”

“Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.”