That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.