“Is it okay to kiss you?” he asks. “What?” “I won’t get struck by lightning?” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances?” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asks. "I don't know," I say wearily. "Anything else you want?"… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“What were you supposed to do?" he asks in an amused voice. "Save you. Only I wasn't actually supposed to do that,… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Who is this?” he asks. “I’ve seen him hanging around you like some lovesick puppy. Is he one of the Nephilim?” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“One minute you’re a happy fourteen-yearold—good at everything you try, popular, fun—the next you’re a freak with wings” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I am amazed at how being with him changes everything for me, socially speaking.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Again," I whisper. The corner of his mouth lifts, and then I kiss him. Not so gently this time. His hands drop from my… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to be an angel-blood who stays earthbound,… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways." "My angelic side. Great. Like I… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“You do know we're officially the talk of the town," I say to Tucker. He might as well have taken a marker to my… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Tucker snorts. "Sage is a fighter, it spreads over the land like wildfire, sucking up all the water, the nutrients in the earth, until… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I guess I always knew that our time together would be fleeting. Ephemeral.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
