And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of me that hasn't changed. In this moment I'm not defined by the other things, the things that happened to me, the things I didn't choose. This is the part of me that defines me for all time, for always. The thing I choose completely.

— Daisy Whitney

Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

— Daisy Whitney

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

— Daisy Whitney

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

— Daisy Whitney

Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.

— Daisy Whitney

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

— Daisy Whitney

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

— Daisy Whitney

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

— Daisy Whitney

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

— Daisy Whitney

I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.

— Daisy Whitney