But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

I can't make it fade.

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.

I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.