1. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
Water for Elephants
2. I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.
Water for Elephants
3. Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true—why, then you get offended.
Water for Elephants
4. With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
Water for Elephants
5. The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.
Flying Changes