“The books...they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.”

“Don't go," he says. "Your touch is the only thing keeping me from losing my mind.”

“This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.”

“My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything away in my mind. I lose track of the minutes we trample over.”

“He looks away.And he smiles.Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't know why I cant convince my eyes to find something else to focus on.I don't know why my heart is losing its mind.”

“You're my bird," I tell him. "You're my bird and you're going to help me fly away.”

“Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.”