...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

I heard someone's playing hooky,' Zach told me. He smiled. Standing there, it felt almost like nothing bad had ever happened- or would ever happen again 'There's a boy in my life,' I told him. 'He's a very bad influence.' Then Zach nodded. 'Bad boys have a way of doing that. But they're worth it.

So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.