I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?