Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.