Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.

Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.