“Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.” — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“I worry about Lily, sluggish as she is. Will she see Carter's truths? Will he tell her? God knows she won't hear them. She's moving too fast to hear anyone's music but her own. She's so set, but I know… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.” — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“Most days Lily is the steady drumbeat. The rhythm of my heart. The repeating melody of the music in my head. But not today.” — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“Carter may have just beaten the crap out of me, he may have shot me in the back, but he'd bought me Dr. Pepper.… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in.” — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“His presence makes me feel thin. Not model slender. But worn, like an old cotton housedress. Thin like a specimen pressed between two plates… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“I worry about Lily, sluggish as she is. Will she see Carter's truths? Will he tell her? God knows she won't hear them. She's… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“The Vampires have a plan to take over the world?" I asked. I felt a bit dumb, gasping in surprise at every twist to… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“What can I say to convince you that I'm on the up-and-up?" "Why don't you just start at the beginning and I'll stop you… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“That's how you know you're doing the right thing - it's so hard you want to give up.” — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
“You just told me you didn't intend to love me. You didn't want to love me. You got yourself arrested to keep yourself away… — Emily McKay Copy Share Image
