I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

I think...I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.

You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can