Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness...

“Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without know…”

“Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like i…”

“There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw”

“And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to…”