The Jewel

Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until it’s gone.

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It would be easier if I could hate you. But the sad truth is, I will more than likely love you for the rest of my life.

Oh, I do like you. You have such an interesting balance of obedience and contempt.

I love sunrises, even more than sunsets. There's something so exciting about the worlds coming to life in a thousand colors.

It is frighteningly bizarre to hear myself described this way; a set of statistics, a musical instrument, and nothing more.

I think the last dinner was preferable to this one. At least Raven was there. And Lucien.

What is life without a bit of excitement.

My mother used to say that a good meal could ease a troubled heart.

I feel myself dissolve into a thousand molecules, amazed at how three small words can completely alter my state of being.

Title does not protect you from everything.

Doctors are idiots," ...."It's the surrogate that counts.

I press my face against the wrought-iron bars on my window - they are arched and curl into the shape of roses, as i by making a pretty pattern, they can pretend they're something they're not.

I love sunrises, even more than sunsets. There's something so exciting about the world coming to life in a thousand colors. It's hopeful.

This is what I'm wearing. This is my favorite thing to wear, and since it's the last time I'll ever get to choose my own outfit, I'm choosing this, because I love it and it's mine. I don't care what I look like.

Oh, love is handsome, love is charming Love is beauty while it's new But love grows old and love grows colder And fades away like morning dew.

Maybe she knew it, and that's why she wasn't frightened at the end. "This is how it begins," she said. I wonder if she saw death as just another way to freedom.

Something had to be done. No one deserves this life. No one deserves to have their choices taken away.

I hate him. But I hate myself more, for being idiotic enough to believe that I could have that sort of happiness.

Knowing that it would happen and experiencing it are two entirely different things.

Ash, do you honestly think that what they've made you do affects who you are? You are a good person, and don't ever let anyone make you feel differently.

Once a small crack reveals itself, suddenly a hundred others appear. And then the walls that have been so carefully constructed begin to crumble.