“I mean, sure, maybe the princess did indeed date the criminal, but how exactly did they make that work?”
“Are you sure this is okay?” he asks. “I mean, did your dad really invite the handsome stranger who’s dating his daughter to sleep on the couch?”“I like how you added in the ‘handsome.”
“He brushed my tears from my face. "How did I find you?" "Maybe I'm exactly where I should be after all.”
“What I want to know is: One - who is the criminal? Two - how did he (or she) do it?”
“I'd used the word "beautiful" to describe another boy. I knew how it must have sounded to her. I also knew that it was exactly what I'd meant, exactly what I did not want to mean.”
“And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.”