Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.