We're going to trick-or-treat, she said. I don't care how old we are. We are going to exploit the free candy situation to its maximum potential because it might be our last chance, ever.
We don't have to do this, I said.His jaw set in a way that reminded me of how he'd look some times back in grade school, standing around the fringes of s kickball game or on that bench by Mr. Lloyd's...
Was it only because he happened to be the one who came along when he did? Could it have been anyone? Or was there something about him, that I liked and cared at?
The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually...
The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not...
Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith...This is different than doubt. This is something I've never felt before, a total absence of whatever it is that's made me who I am,...
Love.That was the piece that had been missing, way before Prague. That was that piece that had been missing in her life until Will came and made her feel it, for their work together and for the beauty...
It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until the...
Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?
I, Deanna Lambert, belong to no one and no one belongs to me. I don't know what to do.
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: It's not too late to change your mind.
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
How did you find me?I've followed you for a long time. He must have mistaken the look on my face for alarm or fear, and said, Not literally. I just mean I never lost track.But it wasn't fear, or anyth...
He said I didn't need to save him.But you want to.Yeah. But I can't. Right?Probably not. Usually not.
Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
Do you ever feel helpless?Helpless, useless, clueless. And old. Don't forget old.
All my life the only reliable person, the one I could count on, the one who hasn't abandoned me, is me.
Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
So, Cameron, Steph continued, auditions for the school play are next week. You should come. We need more males of the species to try out.Not my thing, Cameron said.okay, so you don't want to be onstag...