“ Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time. Martina Boone
“ Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people. Martina Boone
“ You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer. Martina Boone
“ Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming. Martina Boone
“ Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing E… Martina Boone
“ It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now. Martina Boone
“ Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery. Martina Boone
“ You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake. Martina Boone
“ Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you. Martina Boone
“ You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you. Martina Boone
“ We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again. Martina Boone
“ Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are. Martina Boone
“ So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them. Martina Boone
“ Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all? Martina Boone
“ You didn’t find strength when you couldn’t live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you though… Martina Boone
“ But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood. Martina Boone
