The Chemist

You'll make mistakes because it's impossible to know what is or isn't a mistake until it's made.

Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.

I've never been drawn to someone the way I am to you, and I have been from the very first moment I met you. It's like the difference between...between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.

This is weird, Ollie. I… well, I almost like you right now.” “The feeling will pass.

She searched for something to say, something that would make the world a little less dark and scary for him. 'Pop-Tart?' she offered.

Free was harder to trace...safety always trumped guilt.

way, looking as if he wanted

It wasn’t about gratification, but there was no need that wasn’t met, whether it was physical or something less definable.

And then the world beats you down a little, and some of the color goes out of life, and you settle for reality…

We build up these ideas of people, create the one we want to be with, and then try to keep the real person inside the false mold. It doesn’t always work out well.

the mundane can be quite satisfying. In fact, being ordinary in general is highly underrated.

When he wakes up," Daniel murmured gently, "I'm going to punch him in the throat.

As someone who knew better than most the kind of darkness that went on behind the scenes and how little any of the important decisions had to do with the figurehead spokesperson the people elected, it was hard for her to care much about left or right.

The bed was absurd—some kind of soft, supportive cloud that was probably made from spun gold or unicorn mane.

A person who will sell out his partner always sees the partner as plotting in exactly the same way. Dishonest people don’t believe honest people exist.

It’s like the difference between… between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.

It was odd how comfortable she was with killing people these days, how satisfying she found it. She became bloodthirsty, which was ironic, all things considered. She'd spent six years under their tutelage, and in all that time they hadn't come close to breaking her down, to turning her into someone who enjoyed her work. But three years on the run from them had changed a lot of things.