“The heart can function but it never entirely heals.”

“The heart can function with the wound but it never entirely heals.”

“I don't want to know their secrets. There's only so far I can go.”

“Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.”

“... We're just different.""Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.”

“He tilts his head forward, so close that our noses actually touch, and he winds my braid around his finger. I hold my breath and try to turn off the part of my brain that insists on analyzing every situation and running it through different scenarios and outcomes before taking action. Instead I press on, determined to worry about the consequences later." Sam from WHO I KISSED.”

“If I could take a pill to suck out my insides, shrivel me up into dried-out bones for dogs to cart away, I would do it. Right there.”