I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

It's never right to give up on someone.

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.