Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do