High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

Fate decides until challenged by the fated

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.

There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.