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“I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.”
“Am I giving you a headache? I think. “You are a headache.”
“Whatever else he is, James is my one safe place in the world.”
“I am a girl in want of complete destruction.”
“Do you really want to get into my head? I think. It’s not a friendly place. You’ll regret it.”
“Crazy must run in your family,” he says. “You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip.”
“But James is my north now. The flames are my north now. Our dark secrets are my north now.”
“We have another friend in common. Sweetest girl. She’s like a sane version of you. Goes by Annie.”
“Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia.”
“I’m very familiar with how Fia fights.” I smirk. “I’m so glad one of us kicked your butt.”
“I’ll be fine. I’m always fine.”
“Probably you should stay out of my head. It’s not a friendly place.”
“I am the ocean. I am the yacht in the middle of the ocean. I am nothing. I am flames.”
“She looked . . . whole. With him.”
“If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?”
“I have to trust that, or I’ll lose my mind. Well, lose it more.”
“We are both of us made of the things we have lost.”
“If we are defined by what we have lost, James and I will never really be found.”
“Her voice is as casual as a knife in the gut.”
“Then she leans over, brushes her lips against his forehead, and turns off the lamp.”
“James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.”
“I’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning.”