Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.

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.

I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.

I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.