Robyn Schneider
- Severed heads, broken hearts
She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine. Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.
Jennifer Niven
- All the Bright Places
To distract myself and her, I talk to her like we're on the bell tower ledge. "My whole life I've run either three times faster than everyone else or three times slower. When I was little, I used to race in circles around the living room until I wore this ring in the carpet. It got so I started following the ring, until my dad tore up the rug himself, just ripped it right out with his bare hands."