“You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.”

“The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.”

“Lena: Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have a power.Ethan: Maybe you just have to fall for one.”

“I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.”

“We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.”

“She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power."I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.”

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