"I accept your condemnation," I said.

Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.