The path of your life can change in an instant.

If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.