An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.