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 went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.