We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

You're getting your weird all over me.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.