I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed.

“Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most bea…”

“I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, a…”

“It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow …”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never b…”