But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.

Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus.

Had God created Love to make pain feel even worse?

She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

She would not stop until she beat the devil.

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.