Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them.

Some people see what they want to see.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.