It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

Some people there's no getting over.

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.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.

No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.