People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

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 had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.