A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.

Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.

I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

Running to stand still -Lena