Funny how certain things stay with you.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

You have to learn that people are always listening.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of our...classes...it's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic. Now I get it, though. Poe must have snuck out a lot when he was young.

You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.