I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway." "Something like that.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

There are no coincidences.

The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.