Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.