What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

What you wear doesn't really matter much. All that matters is where you're going what you're doing while you're wearing it.

I believe there’s someone out there for everyone,” he {Isaac} says, “and when you meet that person, sometimes you know right away they are who you were meant to be with. And sometimes, years can go by before you let yourself believe that the feeling you’ve had about a person for so long, is actually love. And what a waste that is.

And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.