Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.
I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.
This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.