“She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.”

“There was light and there was darkness, and where once, so recently, he had sat at his desk bathed in that light, now he was clothed in the black cover of heartbreak.”

“faasla to hai magar koi faasla nahin, mujhse tum juda sahi dil se tum juda nahin.”

“kashtiyaan nahin to kyaa hausale to paas hain,kah do naakhudaaon se, tum koi khudaa nahin.”

“TUM RUK KE NAHI MILTE, HUM JHUK KE NAHI MILTE, MAALUM YEH HOTA HAI, KUCH TUM BHI HO KUCH HUM BHI.”

“It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn’t care anymore.”

“She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.”