✦ the coldest girl in coldtown ㅤ ‘‘i love you, you see...and i fear i have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. i would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......or not obviously’’

✦ the coldest girl in coldtown ㅤ ‘‘but if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?’’

✦ the coldest girl in coldtown ㅤ ‘‘in all my long life, though there were many times i prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. no one but you.’’

✦ the coldest girl in coldtown ㅤ ‘‘but there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" lucien asked. gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "sure there is. i like it when it hurts a lot.’’

✦ the coldest girl in coldtown ㅤ ‘‘every hero is the villain of his own story.’’

the sky is everywhere ㅤ ‘‘that's a misconception, lennie. the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.’’

the sky is everywhere ㅤ ‘‘who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever’’

the sky is everywhere ㅤ ‘‘my sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. grief is forever. it doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. i will never stop grieving Bailey because i will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.’’

the sky is everywhere ㅤ ‘‘each time someone dies, a library burns.’’

the sky is everywhere ㅤ ‘‘grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us, the mirrors how to reflect us, the walls how to contain us; grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell, a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust, that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping. grief is a house where no one can protect you, where the younger sister will grow older than the older one, where the doors no longer let you in or out’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘you are all the colors in one, at full brightness.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘we do not remember days, we remember moments.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘you make me happy, whenever you’re around i’m safe inside your sunshine smile. you make me handsome, whenever i feel like my nose just seems a bit too round. you make me special, and god knows that i’ve longed to be that kind of guy to have around. you make me love you, and that could be the greatest thingmy heart was ever fit to do... you make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one i love...’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘listen, i’m the freak. i’m the weirdo. i’m the troublemaker. i start fights. i let people down. don’t make finch mad, whatever you do. oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. moody finch. angry finch. unpredictable finch. crazy finch. but i’m not a compilation of symptoms. not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. not a problem. not a diagnosis. not an illness. not something to be rescued. i’m a person.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘i should be happy, but instead i feel nothing. i feel a lot of nothing these days. i've cried a few times, but mostly i'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘i remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. i remember her smile and her laugh when i was my best self and she looked at me like i could do no wrong and was whole. i remember how she looked at me the same way even when i wasn’t. i remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘before i die, i want to...be the person i’m meant to be and have that be enough.’’

all the bright places ㅤ ‘‘i was alive. i burned brightly. and then i died, but not really. because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. i linger like the legends of the blue hole. i will always be here, in the offerings and people i left behind.’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘do not accept an evil you can change.’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘always do what you're afraid to do.’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘the universe is seeming really huge right now. i need something to hold on to.’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘here i am frozen, when i deserve to burn.’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘see the world as it is, not as you wish it would be’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘i'll be fine, they tell me. i won't die. it'll just hurt a lot.’’

we were liars ㅤ ‘‘he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he’s saying.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ‘‘meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘i gave up practically the whole world for you,” i tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “the sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, i gave it all up for you.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘i didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘his soul might be a sun. i’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘reality is crushing. the world is a wrong-sized shoe. how can anyone stand it?’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘if bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘a broken heart is an open heart.’’

i'll give you the sun ㅤ ㅤ ‘‘i'm filled with something i can only describe as recognition. not because he looks familiar on the outside this time, but because he feels familiar on the inside.’’