people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

He looked at me like I was beautiful.

My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.