The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara