I look down at the gun. It's jammed. Stupid semiautomatic…

“I struggle to keep my hard, expressionless mask in place. The doctor's most powerful weapon has always been his particular brand of brutal honesty.…

— Cristin Terrill

“For a second I'd forgotten. And when I remembered, it stung all over again.”

— Cristin Terrill

“Let me look at you.” I pull away and put my hands on his cheeks, examining his face. Blue eyes, of course. And how…

— Cristin Terrill

“Loving someone doesn't ever completely go away.”

— Cristin Terrill

“The truth is, the world is a fucked up place sometimes.”

— Cristin Terrill

“I tell her everything I wish I had ever known.”

— Cristin Terrill

“He's got it all. The lineage, the resources, the perfect presidential hair. He'd be crazy not to run.”

— Cristin Terrill

“It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.”

— Cristin Terrill

“Well, that was easy,' I whisper as we follow the little signs with arrows that lead toward room 126. 'No, that was very dangerous…

— Cristin Terrill

“I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.”

— Cristin Terrill

“They were the best family I'd ever had, and it was all total, total bullshit.”

— Cristin Terrill

“If I don't want, I can't be disappointed.”

— Cristin Terrill

“How long have I loved Finn? It crept up on me so gradually, I don't know if I can even pin the moment down.”

— Cristin Terrill

“I had the sudden strange feeling that she was seeing me and not the cloud of Danny Tate around me.”

— Cristin Terrill

“And, for some strange reason, I believe it.”

— Cristin Terrill