I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .