“Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.”

“There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires I am so afraid of what comes next”

“We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.”

“I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.”

“I know the grim probability of my own future. The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that id I don't keep hold of myself I will lose what's left.”

“After school I all but ran to Gran's and it was funny how even with her so sick, being with her could still make me feel safe.”

“Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.”