We have to make our own opportunities. The world does not deliver kindnesses.

It’s not about danger, it’s about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.

Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.

He did not understand her. They were not the same. The garage, the trial, the old man with his head in his hands – his mother, struggling to breathe – those things were horrors. The mess under Layla’s clothes was a game and he hated her for making a part of it, for ever coming near him.

Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn’t seen.

Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn’t turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.

Miranda rolls her eyes. “Passing over,” she says. “That’s nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?

You couldn’t talk about the way things should be in somebody else’s family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn’t seen. Caro.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that’s beautiful.

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.