She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

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

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.