Heartbreakingly beautiful in the very best way, why must all books consume me?

"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.....Then, a few years later, when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After."

"We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing them becomes too high."

"'Because we weren't like other people. We were peculiar.'"