“found out that his life didn’t have to follow the rules,and they both found out that love is a pain in the ass.”

“In love my temperament found a new taste for life: it found a cure for the pain, and a pain without cure.'" –Ghalib”

“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”

“I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all.”

“Travis ran his hand over the stubble on his scalp, shaking his head. “He didn’t get out,” he whispered. “He didn’t get out, Pidge.”My breath caught as I watched the soot on his cheeks streak with his tears. He fell to his knees and I fell with him.“Trent’s smart, Trav. He got out. He had to have found a different way,” I said, trying to convince myself as well.Travis collapsed into my lap, gripping my shirt with both fists. I held him. I didn’t know what else to do.”

“He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.”