Exina

“Dylan laughed. “Seriously, why do you sound so weird?”
“I’m about to take my new houseguest out for some Choctastic Verryberry Swirl.”
“I don’t know what that means. Is that a code?” Dylan paused. “Are you being held hostage and this is your way of signaling me? Blink twice for yes.”
“How’s that going to work? You can’t see me, asshole.”
― Elle Kennedy, Feeling Hot

“How can you love me?" she asked between hiccups. "How can you love me?"
"I just do. You're a part of me."
Exactly.”
― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Secret

“The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It’s easy to threaten it. It’s easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It’s much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“All of us can do what we like.”
“No we can’t. You’re stupid if you think so.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer