The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)

by Maureen Johnson

Anxiety and excitement are cousins; they can be mistaken for each other at points. They have many features in common—the bubbling, carbonated feel of the emotion, the speed, the wide eyes and racing heart. But where excitement tends to take you up, into the higher, brighter levels of feeling, anxiety pulls you down, making you feel like you have to grip the earth to keep from sliding off as it turns.

Out here, the dark settled over the land until it met the rock or the trees, and then the dark fell over everything.

“I’m hugging you with my mind,” he replied. “I’m awkwardly accepting your hug in my mind,”

“Cats know best,”

She was color and glitter and chaos.