Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.