Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals

"Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere"

Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals

"We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business."

Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals

"In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone."

Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals