People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.