Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr*Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts.*Personal Issues*Choice of getting a job to move out*Major Choice*In Process of making it happen*It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby,...
It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
Only, don`t mistake a new place for a new you. I`ve done that more than once. You asked me before why I stay here. Maybe that`s why, he said, now that I think about it. Might as well deal with myself...
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire...
Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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.
When Dad & I used to tell each other to try a little tenderness we meant calm down, be soft, stop having to be right, give a person the benefit of the doubt for a change.
When do you think you're leaving? I asked.I don't know. Probably soon. Got what I came here for.Even though we didn't go back to your old house?That was only part of it, he said. Not the main thing.A...
Why did you come back to Salt Lake? I knew the answer before I asked the question and he knew I knew, and it was like you could see the shadow of it hanging there between us.I needed to see you, he fi...
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.
At least you know what you want. I don't know what I want. Then he was quiet for a long time. We were almost home before he said, Just want to be with you. Like this.My heart sped up. I made a joke. T...
But as I get older I think – can it really be love if we don’t talk that much, don’t see each other? Isn’t love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other’s faul...
Does all this have anything to do with Cameron coming back?Basically.She didn't put any letters down. Our game had effectively stopped. I know you might think you want to be with Cameron that way, she...
Ethan and I are done, I said finally.I'm sorry.He was my first boyfriend.I know.The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend.I know.And I won't find...
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.
Her door is cracked only a tiny bit, and her room is dark. Through the crack I can see her legs on the bed and hear her crying. Not like the big sobbing you do when something tragic and unexpected hap...
There are things I want to remember about Cameron Quick that I can't entirely, like the pajamas he wore when he used to sleep over, and his favorite cereal, or how it felt to hold his hand as we walke...
These days with Dylan – when we're together – it's more friendly and cozy than romantic and exciting, but it still soothes me. Isn't that more caring about myself, though, than loving him? Shouldn't l...
Why do you want to come in?'Because I'm lonely, I think. Why does anyone ever want to be with another person?
Alan, as per his usual routine, got up early and peeked into my rom to check on me. What he found were his teenage stepdaughter and her childhood sweetheart curled up in the same bed, sound asleep and...
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