It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.

“Sweet pea?'" Alec said."I was just trying it out."Alec shook his head. "No."Mag…”

“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”

“It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by th…”

“Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different …”