If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

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.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.