“I am writing to reach you – even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are.” – page 3
“I ran until I forgot I was ten.” – page 9
“The night I promised myself I’d never be wordless when you needed me to speak for you.” – page 32
“Everything good is somewhere else.” – page 55
“Simply knowing the wound exist does nothing to reveal it.” – page 62
“How the streetlights made broken things seem touched by magic.” – Page 86
“I was seen – I who had seldom been seen by anyone. I who was taught, by you, to be invisible in order to be safe.” – Page 96
“I remember it. I remember it all because how can you forget anything about the day you first found yourself beautiful?” – page 107
“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” – page 119
“Do you remember the happiest day of your life? What about the saddest? Do you ever wonder if sadness and happiness can be combined, to make a deep purple feeling, not good, not bad, but remarkable simply because you didn’t have to live on one side or the other?” – page 122
“They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.” – page 176
“It’s not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter” – page 187
“Maybe in the next life we’ll meet each other for the first time- believing in everything but the harm we’re capable of.” – page 192
“What were you before you met me?” “I think I was drowing.” A pause. “And what are you now?” he wispered, sinking. I thought for a second. “Water.” – page 237
“To be gorgeous, you must first be seen.” – page 238