“Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.”

“Cecily peers at the murky grey liquid and frowns at a cube of meat that's floating against the rim. "What was this in a past life?" she asks."Pigeons and a field rabbit," Reed says. "Hunted them down myself.""He's an excellent shot," Linden says."Can you eat pigeons, though?" Cecily falls back into her chair, looking a mix of disgusted and curious."You can eat just about anything," Reed says, dumping a ladleful into her bowl.”

“It's best to let her go," he says.No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.”

“I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.”

“Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say."I'd like that," he says."No," I say. "I promise you won't.”

“You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.”

“I'm going to call you Rose," he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock.”