Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.