"She looked pretty calm for a psychotic ghost, Hayley decided" (Chapter 1, p. 15).

"Ladies and gentlemen, I do believe I'm back" (Chapter 2, p. 27).

"We're a bunch of rational adults sitting around talking about a ghost," Stella reminded him. "It doesn't get much more creepy" (Chapter 2, p. 36).

"Maybe you can get inside me, but you can't make me do something like that" (Chapter 8, p. 144).

"Love's a gift, Hayley, to be taken and received freely" (Chapter 11, p. 184).

"How could something so loved, so desired, punish her this way" (Chapter 15, p. 261).

"How could something so small be so huge? And already be so loved" (Chapter 18, p. 299).

"It's not your first thought, even a conscious one, but it's there, this knowledge that the thread's spinning out. Life cycles" (Chapter 18, p. 301).

"This morning, it felt like everything crashed down on my head, like a whole bookcase, and every book smacked me with the hard...