“I’ve always hated being looked at.”

“This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.”

“They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie”

“I said that without love, there could also be no hate: without hate, no violence. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is.”

“I’ve learned to get really good at this—say one thing when I’m thinking about something else, act like I’m listening when I’m not, pretend to be calm and happy when really I’m freaking out. It’s one of the skillsyou perfect as you get older. You have to learn that people are always listening.”

“I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.”

“I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him”