And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.