“Do I look as pretty as I feel?”

“Hope, as it turned out, dwindled like sand through an hourglass.”

“You wanna go build some shelves with me?”

“Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.”

“When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.”

“—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”