I, Deanna Lambert, belong to no one and no one belongs to me. I don't know what to do.
I thought of what Cameron said about the day I came across the yard to him to ask him to be in my club. About how I had guts. About how I was brave and strong. He was around to tell me these things no...
I should have shouted and wave my hands in case the driver looked back, but mostly in life I don't protest things. I go along, or at least I make people believe I'm going along. Sometimes it's better...
I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.
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.
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...
Do you ever feel helpless?Helpless, useless, clueless. And old. Don't forget old.
And when you can't stand yourself, you don't want people around who are constantly saying how much they love you, because you know you don't deserve it.
Reigning Miss Predictability, Steph said, proudly representing the fine state of Utah.My inability to be spontaneous is part of my charm.It's true. You wouldn't be you otherwise.
You didn't call me last night.Was I supposed to?He looked down. Just figured now that you had my number...Kept my phone on all night, just in case. He laughed. I started to worry that it didn't work....
Why do we drag around like life is so awful?' Why did they forget that there was so much to love?
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...
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...
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 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.
The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.